[TYPO3-english] Inclusion of html pages of another domain

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi,

I need to include html (coming from ASP pages) from another website in 
my TYPO3 website until I have time to recode the stuff in TYPO3.

I see three solutions:

1) create an alternate template with frames and load the external pages 
into one frame (quite some work but would work)

2) Load the external page inside an iframe

3) Include the external page using the extension lumophpinclude (or any 
other that I am not aware of)

Problems:

With 2) I have to specify an height for the iframe and I cannot resize 
it dynamically when the page has loaded as this is now forbidden to 
access info from another domain (cross-domain restrictions on iframes). 
It seems that it would be possible to use some trick with a Flash object 
placeholder loading the external page but I could not find useful resources.
Possible workaround: specify a big enough height and "voilà", that's not 
perfect but would work for a few months, until I convert ASP pages to 
TYPO3. And if the document is bigger than that, then the user will have 
to scroll down the iframe content.

With 3) the problem is that current version is said not to support POST 
and COOKIES anymore (although it was possible in an older version) and 
that's really bad as I need to let those external pages use forms and 
send as such send POST requests (otherwise I would copy the content to 
TYPO3 in a few hours). That really would be the best solution as it 
would be fully integrated with the TYPO3 website. But I need 
"external-domain"-URL rewriting and forwarding of POST requests and of 
course support of cookies for the external domain authentication.

Any hint?

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Xavier Perseguers
http://xavier.perseguers.ch/en