read html content of a page using ajax - c#

i have this need.. I hope someone can give me a right advice !
i have to read the whole html content of a page using an ajax call, it is necessary that the client who is visiting my page is who that make this request to read the html content, and not my application (i mean using downloadstring method of c#)
After this, i need to read the response of the ajax call (in this case the html content of the page setted in the "url:" parameter of the ajax call) server-side (in my code-behind)
how i can do that? is possible?
Thank you for your help..
Stefano

Stefano,
You could get the html content through ajax using, for exemplo, jquery get like this:
$.get('ajax/test.html', function(data) {
//data is the html
});
After that you can make another ajax call sending the data to your "code-behind", as you can see in the complete code:
$.get('ajax/test.html', function(data) {
$.ajax({
dataType: "json",
data: "htmlData=" data
type: "POST",
url: '/code_behind.aspx',
success: function(response){
console.log(response);
}
});
});
I hope that this helps.

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You can find jquery ajax here.
and MVC ajax helper lib here
and here
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Create a Action method which would return JsonResult as viewresult as
public JsonResult GetJsonData()
{
return Json(new
{ testDataResult =TestDataResultObj.Data
JsonRequestBehavior
}, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}
and write following jquery code:-
if (GetDataAsyc()) {
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
data: { testData: testDataResult },
url: url,// url of action method to be called asynch
dataType: "json",
cache: false,
traditional: true,
contentType: "application/json",
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},
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//Display error message
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Is it possible to find out the caller page url from server side at all? Or do I have to pass in the url via service dto?
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$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "YourPage.aspx/DoSomething",
data: "{'pageUrl' : window.location.href}",
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
dataType: "json",
success: function(data) {
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Does anyone know a work around?
I even tried doing something in session_start etc in global.asax but no fix.
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type: "POST",
url: "MyService.aspx/ProcessTracking",
data: jsonData,
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dataType: "json",
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If you want the referrer for the page itself, then you need to pass it as an argument with your Ajax call; it won't be present in the HTTP header.
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Surely it should contain your current domain, as that is webpage doing the post?
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void Application_BeginRequest(Object Sender, EventArgs e)
{
string referrerDomain = HttpContext.Current.Request.UrlReferrer.Host ;
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dataType: "json",
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