Reproducing a web page and add own content to it.

[Diez B. Roggisch]

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