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Embed external webpage inside html without iframe/ajax

I am working on Phonegap application and basically I want to embedd an external webpage inside my html page, yes for me various options are available. I tried with <iframe> method, but I am getting below error:
Refused to display 'https://xyz.com' in a frame because it set 'X-Frame-Options' to 'DENY'
Since I don't have control over the server side, loading an webpage inside an iframe is ruled out.
I also tried with ajax method:
$.ajax({
crossOrigin: true,
url: 'https://xyz.com',
success: function(data) {
$( '#bodyFrame' ).html(data);
}
});
It works fine, but the biggest problem is it doesn't render CSS/Javascript, it only displays plain html.
I tried with <link rel="import" href="https://xyz.com"> now I am getting cross-domain issue.
My question is, is there a way to display an external website inside an HTML page with correct css and js rendering (I don't have control on this part on server side) without IFrame/embed/object tags? I searched lot of questions on SO, most of them tell to use ajax but this have css issue. Can anyone help me in this?

Well, I think that you have at least few options.
Do like I just did for my project where I need to be able to show whole pages offline: load the HTML for that page, iterate through it (with regular expressions) to find out all resource links (JS, CSS, images) and download those (store to file system). Once downloaded, change the URL to URI of your local file on initial HTML. After that show that HTML for user.
Few special things to mention about this way in no particular order:
Implement cache of your own to speed this up.
Use blacklisting for URLs that you don't want to download.
caolan's Async.js library is just great for this.
For CSS resources you need still to download images within it and change the links to those too.
Images can be converted just to Base64 representation inside HTML for less callbacks to handle.
This way you can use the iframes.
This is pretty much related to first one but go through the HTML on your success callback and get all the links for JS and CSS and use technique described here to reload those for you.
Here is summary of that method:
var fileref = document.createElement('script');
fileref.setAttribute("type","text/javascript");
fileref.setAttribute("src", filename);
document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(fileref);

Ajax put to add XML entries into XML file

I am trying to add some emails taken from an inputbox into a .txt file present on my webserver. Here is the code :
email = document.getElementById("mail").value;
$.ajax({
url: 'maillist.txt',
datatype: 'text',
type: 'PUT',
data: email + '; ',
success: function(data) {
alert('Should have work yay!');
}
});
but that doesn't work on any browser. :(
I have tried using javascript classic methods but it was a no go as well...
I would need either a PUT or POST method, either jQuery or JS, to be able to do this on internet explorer 8 and up as well as firefox and chrome. Emails should appear in the text file as
email1#cooldomain.com; email2#cooldomain.com; .....
Just so it works with our in-house VBA Macro. :)
Also, could there be a method for dropping data into XML files (aka create a new XML entry with form data)? And also, is it possible to upload a file from client side to server side using jQuery? Because i would need users to fill up forms and drop their data into an XML file, and link up a file they choose with that. That way they could add stuff into the XML themselves and they would show up brand new into the webpage.
Kindoff "reddit" or "4chan" like if you know the references.
Thanks for your time, really appreciated!

You can't post from a browser to a text file on the server side. You need to have some sort of code on the server side that will receive the HTTP PUT, and persist the data to a file local to the server.

JSONP python script

I've been playing around with the code (HTML2Canvas) from here: https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas
It's a client side Javascript tool to convert a HTML page to a canvas element.
Its uses a proxy to fetch the HTML from a remote site, it makes an Ajax call like this:
$.ajax({
data: {
xhr2:false,
url:urlParts.href
},
url: "http://html2canvas.appspot.com",
dataType: "jsonp",
success: function(html) {
This results in the following, when requesting yahoo.com as the sample URL, url being requested:
http://html2canvas.appspot.com/?callback=jQuery162020564090818326575_1311846010895&xhr2=false&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2F&_=1311846201150
What I want to do is roll my own JSONP proxy which I can point my copy of the code to. Trouble is I have no idea where to start.
The JSONP that is returned (I won't copy it all) begins like this:
jQuery162020564090818326575_1311846010895("<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang=\"en-US\" class=\"y-fp-bg y-fp-pg-grad bkt701\" style=\
So the HTML is escaped and wrapped in a callback.
I'd like to create a Python script that works along the exact same lines and generates the exact same output.
Can anyone point me in the right direction for creating a Python JSONP proxy which would generate similar output? It doesn't have to be Python, I'm just referencing that as it's what is currently used.

I put the source up for the python proxy at https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas-proxy. Be warned though, the script will still go through changes which will most likely break the proxy.

Generate some xml in javascript, prompt user to save it

I'd like to make an XML document in JavaScript then have a save dialog appear.
It's OK if they have to click before the save can occur.
It's *not* OK if I *have* to use IE to achieve this (I don't even need to support it at all). However, Windows is a required platform (so Firefox or Chrome are the preferred browsers if I can only do this in one browser).
It's *not* OK if I need a web server. But conversely, I don't want to require the JavaScript to be run on a local file only, i.e. elevated privileges -- if possible. That is, I'd like to to run locally or on a *static* host. But just locally is OK.
It's OK to have to bend over backwards to do this. The file won't be very big, but internet access might either be there, be spotty or just not be a possibility at all -- see (3).
So far the only ideas I have seen are to save the XML to an iframe and save that document -- but it seems that you can only do this in IE? Also, that I could construct a data URI and place that in a link. My fear here is that it will just open the XML file in the window, rather than prompt the user to save it.
I know that if I require the JavaScript to be local, I can raise privileges and just directly save the file (or hopefully cause a save dialog box to appear). However, I'd much prefer a solution where I do not require raised privileges (even a Firefox 3.6 only solution).
I apologize if this offends anyone's sensibilities (for example, not supporting every browser). I basically want to write an offline application and Javascript/HTML/CSS seem to be the best candidate considering the complexity of the requirements and the time available. However, I have this single requirement of being able to save data that must be overcome before I can choose this line of development.

How about this downloadify script?
Which is based on Flash and jQuery, which can prompt you dialog box to save file in your computer.
Downloadify.create('downloadify',{
filename: function(){
return document.getElementById('filename').value;
},
data: function(){
return document.getElementById('data').value;
},
onComplete: function(){
alert('Your File Has Been Saved!');
},
onCancel: function(){
alert('You have cancelled the saving of this file.');
},
onError: function(){
alert('You must put something in the File Contents or there will be nothing to save!');
},
swf: 'media/downloadify.swf',
downloadImage: 'images/download.png',
width: 100,
height: 30,
transparent: true,
append: false
});

Using a base64 encoded data URI, this is possible with only html & js. What you can do is encode the data that you want to save (in your case, a string of XML data) into base64, using a js library like jquery-base64 by carlo. Then put the encoded string into a link, and add your link to the DOM.
Example using the library I mentioned (as well as jquery):
<html>
<head>
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<script>
//include jquery and jquery-base64 here (or whatever library you want to use)
document.write('click to make save dialog');
</script>
</body>
</html>
...and remember to make the content-type something like application/octet-stream so the browser doesn't try to open it.
Warning: some older IE versions don't support base64, but you said that didn't matter, so this should work fine for you.

Without any more insight into your specific requirements, I would not recommend a pure Javascript/HTML solution. From a user perspective you would probably get the best results writing a native application. However if it will be faster to use Javascript/HTML, I recommend using a local application hosting a lightweight web server to serve up your content. That way you can cleanly handle the file saving server-side while focusing the bulk of your effort on the front-end application.
You can code up a web server in - for example - Python or Ruby using very few lines of code and without 3rd party libraries. For example, see:
Making a simple web server in python
WEBrick - Writing a custom servlet
python-trick-really-little-http-server - This one is really simple, and will easily let you server up all of your HTML/CSS/JS files:
"""
Serves files out of its current directory.
Doesn't handle POST requests.
"""
import SocketServer
import SimpleHTTPServer
PORT = 8080
def move():
""" sample function to be called via a URL"""
return 'hi'
class CustomHandler(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
def do_GET(self):
#Sample values in self for URL: http://localhost:8080/jsxmlrpc-0.3/
#self.path '/jsxmlrpc-0.3/'
#self.raw_requestline 'GET /jsxmlrpc-0.3/ HTTP/1.1rn'
#self.client_address ('127.0.0.1', 3727)
if self.path=='/move':
#This URL will trigger our sample function and send what it returns back to the browser
self.send_response(200)
self.send_header('Content-type','text/html')
self.end_headers()
self.wfile.write(move()) #call sample function here
return
else:
#serve files, and directory listings by following self.path from
#current working directory
SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.do_GET(self)
httpd = SocketServer.ThreadingTCPServer(('localhost', PORT),CustomHandler)
print "serving at port", PORT
httpd.serve_forever()
Finally - Depending on who will be using your application, you also have the option of compiling a Python program into a Frozen Binary so the end user does not have to have Python installed on their machine.

Javascript is not allowed to write to a local machine. Your question is similar to this one.
I suggest creating a simple desktop app.

Is localhost PHP server ok? Web traditionally can't save to hard drive because of security concerns. PHP can push files though it requires a server.
Print to PDF plugins are available for available for all browsers. Install once, print to PDF forever. Then, you can use a javascript or Flash to call a Print function.
Also, if you are developing for an environment where internet access is spotty, conwider using VB.NET or some other desktop language.
EDIT:
You can use the browser's Print function.

Are you looking for something like this?
If PHP is ok, if would be much easier.

With IE you could use document.execCommand, but I note that IE is not an option.
Here's something that looks like it might help, although it will not prompt with SaveAs dialog, https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Code_snippets/File_I%2F%2FOL.

One simple but odd way to do this that doesn't require any Flash is to create an <a/> with a data URI for its href. This even has pretty good cross-browser support, although for IE it must be at least version 8 and the URI must be < 32k. It looks like someone else on SO has more to say on the topic.

Why not use a hybrid flash for client and some server solution server-side. Most people have flash so you can default to client side to conserve resources on the server.

How do you execute a server-side Python script using jQuery?

I have a very simple Python file, called python1.py, whose contents are:
f = open('C:\\Temp\\test.txt', 'w')
f.write('Succeeded')
f.close()
I wish to execute this from JavaScript, like so:
jQuery.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "/cgi-bin/python1.py",
success: function (msg) {
alert("Data Saved: " + msg);
}
});
However, all that happens is that I get an alert showing me the contents of the Python script. The file C:\Temp\test.txt does not get created, so clearly the Python was not executed.
How do I persuade the code to execute the Python script instead of just reading it?

You simply need to configure your web server to execute your *.py scripts, instead of serving them as plain text.
If you are using Apache as a web server, you need to enable mod_python or mod_wsgi.
EDIT:
Since you are using using Apache, you may want to check the following article, which briefly describes how to set up the mod_python module:
A Brief Introduction to Apache's mod_python Module

You could also use the opensource project Pico. It's a really elegant way of calling server side Python code from client side Javascript.
The author has provided some simple examples here https://github.com/fergalwalsh/pico/wiki/Example-1:-Hello-World

Are you able to execute the script directly from the browser. This looks more like a webserver config issue than jquery's

If your script is that simple, you would be best off using CGI on the server side rather than mod_python or mod_wsgi as suggested by others. For details on how to set up Apache for CGI with Python and simple script examples see:
http://webpython.codepoint.net/cgi_tutorial