Thanks for the answers. The reason I'm asking this in Perlmonks is because I'm not quite sure what I actually need/want in JavaScript.

We don't want users seeing the financial institution pages, we want to download the account statements in the background (but still using the client's browser). This has led me thinking into loading the banking pages in a hidden IFRAME, but yes, there's the same origin problem (I cannot peek into the DOM of the content of the IFRAME).

I just read up on cross-domain AJAX and JSONP, but this requires that the banking site returns JSON, which it does not.

We could setup a proxy on our servers, but this violates the requirement.

In reply to Re^2: In-browser mech-like thing? by dgaramond2
in thread In-browser mech-like thing? by dgaramond2

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