VBScript: Reading from a html file

**Het Irv** · November 5th, 2007

I can't find anywhere online that gives me a good anwser. If anyone knows of a better forums to post this in please tell me.

I am trying to write a Logon Script for my network that will display a HTML file every two hours (for security reasons). What I have so far will only read .txt files.

Code:

'Declares varibles
Dim objFSO, objFile, strCharacters

'Open the file
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\test.txt", 1)
	'To change the file change the path in the line above

'Read the file
Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream
    strCharacters = strCharacters & objFile.Read(1)
Loop

'Display the file in a message box every 2 hours.
Do
	Wscript.Echo strCharacters
	WScript.sleep(7200*1000)
		'To change the amount of time change the first number in 
		'the line above to the number of seconds needed.
Loop

I don't know much about programming, most of this code has been copied from other places. Any help you can give will be much apreciatied.

**cwaldbieser** · November 6th, 2007

I am not too clear what you are trying to do. Are you trying to read an HTML file and then-- what? Display it in a message box? Could you please explain a little more in depth what you are trying to accomplish?

**Het Irv** · November 6th, 2007

Originally Posted by cwaldbieser

I am not too clear what you are trying to do. Are you trying to read an HTML file and then-- what? Display it in a message box? Could you please explain a little more in depth what you are trying to accomplish?

Sorry, Yeah that is about it. Really all I am trying to acomplish is to display the file every 2 hours. I'm not real picky on how the file is displayed. I just don't want to use alot of system resources so I would like for this to work as simply as possible. The message box was the first thing that came to mind on this project.

**cwaldbieser** · November 7th, 2007

Originally Posted by Het Irv

Sorry, Yeah that is about it. Really all I am trying to acomplish is to display the file every 2 hours. I'm not real picky on how the file is displayed. I just don't want to use alot of system resources so I would like for this to work as simply as possible. The message box was the first thing that came to mind on this project.

An HTML file is a text file. I am not sure why your program wouldn't work on one.
Do you want to render the markup like a browser does? Or is the trouble that you want to read the HTML from a URL rather than a filesystem path?