How to get output of a webpage in ActionScript 2 - actionscript-2

Question

For Actionscript 2.0
Let's say this page
www.example.com/mypage
returns some html that I want to parse in Actionscript.
How do i call this page from Actionscript while getting back the response in a string variable?

Answer 1

use LoadVars():
var lv = new LoadVars();
//if you want to pass some variables, then:
lv.var1 = "BUTTON";
lv.var2 = "1";
lv.sendAndLoad("http://www.example.com/mypage.html", lv, "POST");
lv.onLoad = loadedDotNetVars;
function loadedDotNetVars(success)
{
if(success)
{
// operation was a success
trace(lv.varnameGotFromPage)
}
else
{
// operation failed
}
}
//if you dont want to send data, just get from it, then use just lv.Load(...) instead of sendAndLoad(...)

Answer 2

I understand. Use this code then:
docXML = new XML(msg);
XMLDrop = docXML.childNodes;
XMLSubDrop = XMLDrop[0].childNodes;
_root.rem_x = (parseInt(XMLSubDrop[0].firstChild));
_root.rem_y = (parseInt(XMLSubDrop[1].firstChild));
_root.rem_name = (XMLSubDrop[2].firstChild);

Answer 3

var htmlFetcher:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
htmlFetcher.onData = function(thedata) {
trace(thedata); //thedata is the html code
};
Use:
htmlFetcher.load("http://www.example.com/mypage");
to call.

Answer 4

I suppose you could use:
page = getURL("www.example.com/mypage.html");
And it would load the page contents on the page variable.