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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 8:41 am
by AnsonM
Is it possible to retrieve data from another server and display it on yours?

e.g. http://trademe.co.nz (Uses ASP)

Is it possible to retrieve listings from there? And then listing, posting auctions on there?

Help would be appreciated :)

Thanx!

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 9:35 am
by lostboy
yes, it is possible to grab data from another server via sockets (you can act as a browser and send an http request to the server)...or perhaps an XML request to the page if they wold consider creating a web service

If you want to post to their site, you'd need to talk to them and have them include your info in (as in a frame or something else like that)

You would need to talk with them about merging content, otherwise you might violate copywrite...