Question

Is it possible to load a foreign website into a div of my page with the jQuery load method?

$('#content').load('http://www.somedomain.com/server/whatever/file.php');

It’s not working for me!

Answer 1

You might be able to work around the security restriction described by @Giorgi using a PHP-based proxy script.

proxy.php

<?php
if( isset( $_GET['url'] ) ) {
 # Get the Referred URL
  $raw = file_get_contents( $_GET['url'] );
 # RegExp to Strip All Script tags and/or links with Javascript in them.
  $safe = preg_replace( '/<script[^>]*>.*<\/script>|[\"\']javascript:.*[\"\']/im' , '' , $raw );
  echo $safe;
} else {
  echo 'No URL Set';
}

Then use the jQuery load action to call pages like proxy.php?url=http%3A//www.google.com/

Not, the preg_replace() action is just a rough draft – you would want to do some major testing and tweaking to ensure that you prevent people from messing with your site this way.