How to capture the text contents on a webpage "inside" frame?

[Josef Lowder]

Thanks for your suggestions.  I finally did capture the file using Firefox 
instead of Konqueror, but I very much appreciate the alternatives that 
you described as they are very good ideas that I'm sure I may have 
use for in some other situations later. 

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On Friday 08 July 2005 23:16, you wrote:
> On Jul 8, 2005, at 3:20 PM, Josef Lowder wrote:
> > I have a web page open in Konqueror that has a large text file open
> > within a "frame" window that is inside the host frame. 
> > I want to capture the contents of this file, but haven't been able
> > to do so.

> Actually, I'm surprised that that method didn't work.  In 99% of the
> cases, all you need to do is look for "frame src='whatever.html'" and
> just get whatever.html directly.  I ran into one case a while back
> where I absolutely could not directly access the contents of a frame
> no matter what I tried... but that's the extreme rarity.
>
> > Any suggestions?  Perhaps there is some way to capture whatever
> > text is
> > suspended in memory?
>
> If all else fails, you could try getting the file directly out of
> Konqueror's cache.  I don't know if the cache is found in different
> places on different systems or not.  On my SuSE 9.3 installation, the
> cache is in $HOME/.kde/cache-<HOST>/http.
>
> Try something like:
>
> find $HOME/.kde/cache-<HOST>/http -name "*THE_SITE_HOSTNAME*" | xargs
> fgrep "SOME TEXT FROM THE FILE"
>
> That should do it.
>
> Kurt