Edited by author 04-14-2001 01:00 AM
Take a look closely at homeadvisor's source. The simply "yank" alll the data from an HTTP GET into java script variables. Take a look at http:// 63.78.183.70/CICS/CWBA/HVEJS?a=STREETADDRESS&c=&s=&z=ZIP&p=&d=&t=1&pt=1 (I put a space between in the url so that this board doesn't snip it) and see what you get. This is NOT html, so your browser wants to save it somewhere. Look at it via a text viewer. This is super easy to parse. If you get tricky, this is the only site that you need to pull data from. This will give you map coordinates and everything.

So to sum up, this is 100 times easier than doing SSL, 10 times easier than parsing someone else's html and makes the project quick and easy.