[OT] JavaScript with socket function

[Misko <asdrtg-mlist@yahoo.com.au>]

I am trying to write some JavaScript function in web page
that can fetch other web page from internet, store it in
variable, parse and present some extracted data from that
other page. I just do not know how to fetch other page.
I guess I am looking for some kind of socket
function in JavaScript (like fsockopen() in PHP).
Is there such thing?

Misko