[rdnpa]

is it possible to fetch the title of another page?

for instance, when the script operates, it will go and get programmingtalk.com's title and write it in my webpage.

if programmingtalk is unavailable, then it will say "website is not available".

is that possible with js?

[overule]

i think it is possible ,there is script that allow fetching whole page of news and there should be no problem regarding title in my opinion

www.hotscripts.com lots of fetching script out there!

[psyon]

There is no way in only JS to due it, because cross site scripting is not allowed.

You could call a CGI script to be the source of the js, and have it output the script to write it.

On your page you might have

Code:

<script language="javascript" src="/cgi-bin/gettitle.cgi?http://www.domain.com"></script>

Then if this was perl, gettitle.cgi might be

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;

print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n";
my $html = get($ENV{'QUERY_STRING'});
if($html =~ m/<TITLE>(.*?)<\/title>/is) {
  print "document.write('$1');";
} else {
  print "Site not available";
}
exit;