Thanks Troy you have been more helpful than google! :mrgreen:

I wrote a PHP proxy script that has some applications relevant to this thread, so thought I'd update the thread with this....

If your webserver supports PHP, I have a script that is a solution to the cross-domain security issues when doing things such as AJAX requests, etc. Instead of directly requesting the content, request my proxy.php passing in the real URL that you want. The proxy.php script will go fetch the content for you and forward back that response to your client script. It echoes back the full headers and response body.

proxy.php
http://www.troywolf.com/articles/php...ttp/proxy.phps

One problem people run into when using a proxy to get content is that relevant URLs in links break. You can solve this by parsing the body text, look for links, and if the link does not start with 'http://', insert the original site url. It's not exactly a simple thing to do, but a solution I've built in the past.