Reproducing a web page and add own content to it.

[LaundroMat]

On Apr 8, 2:04 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de... at nospam.web.de> wrote:
> 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

Ack. I was too focused on importing the external web page and
redisplaying the information (I've just been reading up on
BeautifulSoup) instead of looking for an HTML based approach.

Thanks!