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Hello,

If a visitor doesn't put anything in the "Search" text box I'd like them to
be redirected to where they came from before the search form forwarded them
to the search.asp page. Therefore I've put the following at the top of
search.asp to do this.
The problem is however, that if
Jul 21 '05 #1
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Sorry, didn't finish did i?! Here we go....

Hello,

If a visitor doesn't put anything in the "Search" text box I'd like them to
be redirected to where they came from before the search form forwarded them
to the search.asp page. Therefore I've put the right stuff at the top of
search.asp to do this.
The problem is however, if the last thing they did was search for something
it will redirect them to the search page, which will redirect them to the
search page, which will redirect them to the search page etc. and the
operation times out. I tried to get over this by using a variable passed to
the search page, if it's the search page that is forwarding it on. If this
variable was set it would redirect it instead to index.asp - however, it
caused problems because I was attaching ?StopTimeout=1 to the end of the
Response.Redirect URL - causing problems if the URL to redirect to already
contained the ? character and some variables. Essentially I want a way of
working out if the referring page contains a ? or not, so I know whether I
have to do ?StopTimeout=1 or &StopTimeout=1 - know what I mean?

Regards
Greg
Jul 21 '05 #2
How are you redirecting to previous page? A hidden field on the form you
pass through?
Sounds like you need to compare this against your search path and if it's
the same, don't redirect.

Think thats what you need to do.

Stu

"Greg" <te**@jmswebdesigns.com> wrote in message
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Sorry, didn't finish did i?! Here we go....

Hello,

If a visitor doesn't put anything in the "Search" text box I'd like them to be redirected to where they came from before the search form forwarded them to the search.asp page. Therefore I've put the right stuff at the top of
search.asp to do this.
The problem is however, if the last thing they did was search for something it will redirect them to the search page, which will redirect them to the
search page, which will redirect them to the search page etc. and the
operation times out. I tried to get over this by using a variable passed to the search page, if it's the search page that is forwarding it on. If this
variable was set it would redirect it instead to index.asp - however, it
caused problems because I was attaching ?StopTimeout=1 to the end of the
Response.Redirect URL - causing problems if the URL to redirect to already
contained the ? character and some variables. Essentially I want a way of
working out if the referring page contains a ? or not, so I know whether I
have to do ?StopTimeout=1 or &StopTimeout=1 - know what I mean?

Regards
Greg

Jul 21 '05 #3

"Greg" <te**@jmswebdesigns.com> wrote in message
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Hello,

If a visitor doesn't put anything in the "Search" text box I'd like them to be redirected to where they came from before the search form forwarded them to the search.asp page. Therefore I've put the following at the top of
search.asp to do this.
The problem is however, that if


this problem is best solved with javascript on the client side

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Jul 21 '05 #4
What? Do you have search.htm and search.asp??

Where is the search form? Is search.asp the search form?

Jeff
"Greg" <te**@jmswebdesigns.com> wrote in message
news:#N**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
Sorry, didn't finish did i?! Here we go....

Hello,

If a visitor doesn't put anything in the "Search" text box I'd like them to be redirected to where they came from before the search form forwarded them to the search.asp page. Therefore I've put the right stuff at the top of
search.asp to do this.
The problem is however, if the last thing they did was search for something it will redirect them to the search page, which will redirect them to the
search page, which will redirect them to the search page etc. and the
operation times out. I tried to get over this by using a variable passed to the search page, if it's the search page that is forwarding it on. If this
variable was set it would redirect it instead to index.asp - however, it
caused problems because I was attaching ?StopTimeout=1 to the end of the
Response.Redirect URL - causing problems if the URL to redirect to already
contained the ? character and some variables. Essentially I want a way of
working out if the referring page contains a ? or not, so I know whether I
have to do ?StopTimeout=1 or &StopTimeout=1 - know what I mean?

Regards
Greg

Jul 21 '05 #5

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