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

[Lars Haendler]

Hi,

Xavier Perseguers wrote:
> 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?
> 

I had a similar problem some days ago. Old school frameset proved to be 
the best solution because get und post variables did not get lost.

Cheers
Lars