Response.End or not?

[Waldy]

Hi there,
after looking at someone elses code here I noticed that he
always does a Response.End after a Response.Redirect. I was under the
impression that code execution would stop on the current page as soon as the
Response.Redirect statement appeared, but the guy reckons that the code will
continue running on the current page before starting the new one. Can
someone give me the definitive answer on this?

[Aaron Bertrand - MVP]

Depending on the buffering that is set, sometimes that is true, sometimes it
is not. Response.End ensures it, and i find the use of response.end similar
to the practice of always closing and setting objects to nothing. There is
no harm in doing it, and it removes that as a potential investigation point
when the page goes wrong somehow...
"Waldy" <wa***@69.cock> wrote in message
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Hi there,
after looking at someone elses code here I noticed that he
always does a Response.End after a Response.Redirect. I was under the
impression that code execution would stop on the current page as soon as the Response.Redirect statement appeared, but the guy reckons that the code will continue running on the current page before starting the new one. Can
someone give me the definitive answer on this?

[Ray at]

Here's a test, 69.cock:

<%

response.redirect "page2.asp"
Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject"). OpenTextFile("D:\file.txt"
, 2, True).Write "Still running"

%>

First, comment out the redirect and make sure that the file will be created
without errors, then delete the file, uncomment, and reload the page.

Ray at work

"Waldy" <wa***@69.cock> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

Hi there,
after looking at someone elses code here I noticed that he
always does a Response.End after a Response.Redirect. I was under the
impression that code execution would stop on the current page as soon as the Response.Redirect statement appeared, but the guy reckons that the code will continue running on the current page before starting the new one. Can
someone give me the definitive answer on this?

[Waldy]

Ray,
I can confirm that the file does not get created when I uncomment
the Redirect. This seems to suggest what I suspected, that no code gets
executed on the current page after a Redirect.

Thanks.