SSI to include remote file

[dkilburn]

I want to include the file: http://www.johnhiblerweather.com/include.txt on this page: http://www.goatweb.com/news/test.shtml.

I've got <!--#include virtual="http://www.johnhiblerweather.com/include.txt" --> on the test page, but I am getting a "error occurred while processing this directive" message on the page.

The first site is a weatherman site. He would like to let other sites include his weekly forecast without having a lot of major updating on anyone's part. I though that if he could upload the forecast he already does into a text file, other sites could just add the include line to their page. In theory it sounds good anyway!

Any ideas to get this to work?

[jaiem]

SSI INCLUDEs are for your local server. You can't include from someone elses server (at least I've never seen it done).

[dkilburn]

:-(

If that is the case, can you think of an easy way to do what I am trying to accomplish? Ideally, I'd like to be able to give a webmaster a piece of code that they can put on their page to have updated local weather info from the weather site right on their page. I know they can link to the forecast page, but that isn't what we are trying to do.

Am I chasing the impossible dream??

[jaiem]

I'd have to play around with it more but just a ball park idea:

If you put the full url to the text file in your html page won't that pull in the text file when the page is viewed?

[lynlimz]

Well...Use PHP =)
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[dkilburn]

I realized after I put this here that the scripting forum would probably be more appropriate. I'll move the question over there :-)