On Apr 8, 4:11 pm, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > LaundroMat wrote: > > On Apr 8, 2:04 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> LaundroMat wrote: > >>> Hi - > >>> I'm working on a Django powered site where one of the required > >>> functionalities is the possibility of displaying the content of > >>> external pages, with an extra banner at the top where specific > >>> information is displayed. In other words, I'm looking for a way to > >>> reproduce an existing web page and add some HTML code to it. (I can't > >>> think of an example right now, but the idea is similar to sites that > >>> let you see an external page and have some site-specific text above it > >>> (often stating that the content below is not part of the site the user > >>> comes from)). > >>> To test this, I've been downloading an external page, adding some text > >>> to it and re-opening it in a browser (with the help of built-in > >>> modules such as urllib2 etc). This works of course, but the external > >>> page's links such as <img src="hello.png">, or <a href="help.html"> > >>> are evidently no longer correct. > >>> Apart from parsing the whole file and trying to inject the external > >>> site's domain in links such as the above (with the added inconvenience > >>> of having to store the external page locally), is there an easier way > >>> of accomplishing what I want? > >> Using a frame? > > >> Diez > > > Ack. I was too focused on importing the external web page and > > redisplaying the information (I've just been reading up on > > BeautifulSoup) instead of looking for an HTML based approach. > > > Thanks! > > You could also look at adding a <base> tag to your generated page's > <head> section. > > regards > Steve > -- > Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 > Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/
True, but I suppose that users would no longer see the top banner added by me when they click on one of the links on the external site's page. I'm a bit hesitant about using frames however, but reading up on them makes me think the application I have in mind for them might be the generally accepted exception to the rule that frames are bad :) Anyway. Thanks for the help! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
