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Jerry Stuckle

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From: Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net>

Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:23:58 -0500

Local: Wed, Nov 11 2009 6:23 pm

Subject: Re: Fetch server zip file and read it using client javascript?

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Java Jive wrote:
> Is this possible?

> I'm wondering if it would be possible to read SRTM data direct from
> NASA's site and use it on a web-page?
> http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/cbanddataproducts.html

Nope. Most browsers restrict javascript from accessing any site other
than the one the javascript was loaded from for security reasons.
Additionally, javascript doesn't have any way of unzipping the files
itself, AFAIK, and again, it can't access programs on the user's
computer for security reasons.

You could fetch it using a server side language, though.

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