Basic question re:links.length

document.links.length isn't working consistently in my program and I'm
not sure why.

My program opens up a web page in a new window.
(No problem so far, it works great)

Simple web pages coded by hand work fine and display the number of links
in the original window - that's my goal.

Any page off the web barfs up with zero links - if there is any output at
all.

Any ideas? Thanks all.

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Farlo said:

document.links.length isn't working consistently in my program and I'm
not sure why.

My program opens up a web page in a new window.
(No problem so far, it works great)

Simple web pages coded by hand work fine and display the number of links
in the original window - that's my goal.

Any page off the web barfs up with zero links - if there is any output at
all.

Any ideas? Thanks all.

That's a security feature.
A page can't read the contents of a page that doesn't
come from the same domain.
You wouldn't want a pop-behind window to be able to read
the contents of every page that you visited in another
window, would you?

You have no script access to pages out of your domain: security restrictions
apply.

Farlo <hall.j.m (AT) att (DOT) net> wrote

document.links.length isn't working consistently in my program and I'm
not sure why.

My program opens up a web page in a new window.
(No problem so far, it works great)

Simple web pages coded by hand work fine and display the number of links
in the original window - that's my goal.

Any page off the web barfs up with zero links - if there is any output at
all.

Any ideas? Thanks all.

--
Farlo, the Urban Fey Dragon

Due to gross abuse of internet e-mail by persons unknown,
all of my e-mail is being whitelisted at the mail server.

Lee <REM0VElbspamtrap (AT) cox (DOT) net> wrote:

That's a security feature.
A page can't read the contents of a page that doesn't
come from the same domain.
You wouldn't want a pop-behind window to be able to read
the contents of every page that you visited in another
window, would you?

Lee, VK, Thank you both.

Now the behavior makes sense.

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Farlo, the Urban Fey Dragon

Due to gross abuse of internet e-mail by persons unknown,
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