Reload page without <script> tags

Question

I need to render a page without executing it's JavaScript (however inject my own script), showing the user how the page would look from a bot's POV.

So far I have thought of loading the page using ajax, removing all <script></script> tags from the loaded data, injecting my own <script></script> tags and replacing page html with the filtered data.

Are there any better ways of achieving this?

Answer 1

Maybe not a better way, but an alternative to using javascript to do what you want:

You can write a (php) server-side script, use file_get_contents() to get the original page contents, use php to remove and replace javascript page contents (str_replace, substr_replace, preg_match) then call this php script in an iframe.

See my related answer for more detail: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17262334/888177

Answer 2

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; url=http://example.com/">

Meta refresh.

EDIT:

So, here's something you can do:

Check out this jquery plugin called fancybox.

What it does is, load remote url content into a neat popup div on the page. You can check if you can modify it's code to make it work how you want.

Also quick headsup: bots don't have cookies as well. So, stripping just script tags won't do. Also have to disable cookies in the request.