Manipulating HTTP Response

[Anon]

Hi Folks, I am working on a project whereby I have to translate a HTML page with images and graphics to a text only version. It will be like a parser which takes a link as an input and displays the Text only version stripping of all the images etc.

I guess this can be done by manipulating the HTTP Response .
I have never directly worked with HTTP Requests Responses. Anyone knowing more can mail me or reply

[chaostik]

Hi,

I imagine you would get the page to be translated input from a form. Then take the address and open it with fopen() and grab it's contents. Then do your parsing routine and simply echo the result to the browser. Something like:

<?
// Assume $page contains the address of the page to translate

$fp = fopen($page,"r");
if( !$fp ) {
echo "Error opening page";
exit();
}

while( !feof($fp) ) {
$content .= fgets($fp,4096);
}

// Do your parsing routine on $content here

echo $content;
?>

Hope that helps,

Louis