Automation...

Hi there.

I've been trying to build a system to automate the somewhat tedious process I have to go through of manually putting up a few property adverts per day on a certain website. On this website, you just use a normal form to enter all the details of an ad, and then click upload, at which point it supplies you with a posting reference.

Now, having done this for months, I got sick of it, and built a system that integrated with our database program, so with one click the ad was added, I just then had to copy the reference from the one frame I used for the website, and put it into the database. I still obviously had to do this one ad at a time however.

What I am looking to do now, is have it so I can click once, and have everything done. I've got the database stuff done, and the automated posting done, but stupidly enough, I can't work out how to get the posting reference out of the page that is supplied to me.

Trying things like
self.window[0].document.body.innerText (when using an iFrame)
just give me errors along the lines of access denied, depending on which browser I am using.

I've also tried things like document.getElementById('adFrame').innerHTML

Unfortunately my DOM knowledge is a little rusty these days, so I don't know where I'm going wrong. I also remember reading on MSDN that interaction between frames of different sites is limited for security reasons. Could this be it?

Could very well be.
Imagine someone writing a similar script, keeping track of any other windows you have open and snooping out passwords?

Remember however that an iFrame is a subclass of the document class of the parent document:

Avoid frames; problem solved =)

I do believe it is a strong security concern if you were able to manipulate an external site across frames, although I don't see any need for that in your example.

Are you running two sites? Or are both pages hosted on the same site?

It's a case of I've written a page which is basically local (it's running off the built in web server of the database software), and I'm posting the ads to a public site. It's not ours in any way. Which is I think what's causing the difficulties.