diff --git a/node/ReadOnlyManager.js b/node/ReadOnlyManager.js
index de2c64446..3c90d9caf 100644
--- a/node/ReadOnlyManager.js
+++ b/node/ReadOnlyManager.js
@@ -60,6 +60,15 @@ exports.getReadOnlyId = function (padId, callback)
   })
 }
 
+/**
+ * returns a the padId for a read only id
+ * @param {String} readOnlyId read only id
+ */
+exports.getPadId = function(readOnlyId, callback)
+{
+  db.get("readonly2pad:" + readOnlyId, callback);
+}
+
 /**
  * Generates a random String with the given length. Is needed to generate the read only ids
  */
diff --git a/node/exporters/exporthtml.js b/node/exporters/exporthtml.js
index 7b412d147..335d72128 100644
--- a/node/exporters/exporthtml.js
+++ b/node/exporters/exporthtml.js
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
  */
 var async = require("async");
 var Changeset = require("../Changeset");
+var padManager = require("../PadManager");
 
 
 function getPadPlainText(pad, revNum) {
@@ -307,22 +308,33 @@ function _analyzeLine(text, aline, apool) {
   return line;
 }
 
-function getPadHTMLDocument(pad, revNum, noDocType, callback) {
-  var head = (noDocType?'':'<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" '+
+exports.getPadHTMLDocument = function(padId, revNum, noDocType, callback) {
+  padManager.getPad(padId, function(err, pad)
+  {
+    if(err)
+    {
+      callback(err);
+      return;
+    }
+  
+    var head = (noDocType?'':'<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" '+
               '"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">\n')+
     '<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">\n'+
     (noDocType?'':
       '<head>\n'+
       '<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />\n'+
       '<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" />\n'+
-      '<title>'+'/'+pad.getId()+'</title>\n'+
+      '<style> * { font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\n'+
+      'font-size: 13px;\n'+
+      'line-height: 17px; }</style>\n' +
       '</head>\n')+
     '<body>';
 
-  var foot = '</body>\n</html>\n';
+    var foot = '</body>\n</html>\n';
 
-  getPadHTML(pad, revNum, function (err, html) {
-    callback(err, head + html + foot);
+    getPadHTML(pad, revNum, function (err, html) {
+      callback(err, head + html + foot);
+    });
   });
 }
 
@@ -410,7 +422,3 @@ function _findURLs(text) {
 
   return urls;
 }
-
-
-exports.getPadHTML = getPadHTML;
-exports.getPadHTMLDocument = getPadHTMLDocument;
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/node/server.js b/node/server.js
index febf2c963..5b2c904ba 100644
--- a/node/server.js
+++ b/node/server.js
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ var async = require('async');
 var express = require('express');
 var path = require('path');
 var minify = require('./minify');
+var exporthtml;
+var readOnlyManager;
 
 //try to get the git version
 var version = "";
@@ -63,6 +65,10 @@ async.waterfall([
     //create server
     var app = express.createServer();
     
+    //load modules that needs a initalized db
+    readOnlyManager = require("./ReadOnlyManager");
+    exporthtml = require("./exporters/exporthtml");
+    
     //set logging
     if(settings.logHTTP)
       app.use(express.logger({ format: ':date: :status, :method :url' }));
@@ -92,6 +98,55 @@ async.waterfall([
       }
     });
     
+    //serve read only pad
+    app.get('/ro/:id', function(req, res)
+    { 
+      res.header("Server", serverName);
+      
+      var html;
+      var padId;
+      var pad;
+      
+      async.series([
+        //translate the read only pad to a padId
+        function(callback)
+        {
+          readOnlyManager.getPadId(req.params.id, function(err, _padId)
+          {
+            padId = _padId;
+            callback(err);
+          });
+        },
+        //render the html document
+        function(callback)
+        {
+          //return if the there is no padId
+          if(padId == null)
+          {
+            callback("notfound");
+            return;
+          }
+          
+          //render the html document
+          exporthtml.getPadHTMLDocument(padId, null, false, function(err, _html)
+          {
+            html = _html;
+            callback(err);
+          });
+        }
+      ], function(err)
+      {
+        //throw any unexpected error
+        if(err && err != "notfound")
+          throw err;
+          
+        if(err == "notfound")
+          res.send('404 - Not Found', 404);
+        else
+          res.send(html);
+      });
+    });
+    
     //serve pad.html under /p
     app.get('/p/:pad', function(req, res, next)
     {
