how to pass value to a asp file not using form post/get?

[1965]

Hi, All.
I want to pass a value to asp file on server side but NOT using form post/get. For example:[html]
<input id="regionbox" type="hidden" name="region" value="abc">


function dothing
...
request.open("GET", "do.asp?"+Date.parse(Date()), true);
...[/html]do.asp file on server side should respond to abc and do sth.

do.asp
<%
if (???="abc") then
s="http://www.123.com"
end
if (???="abc0") then
s="http://www.000.com"
end
 
use s to do sth
 
...
%>

It seems ??? can not be replaced with request.querystring(). How to do it?

Please show code.
Thank you very much in advance.

[jhardman]

I'm not sure I understand you. You are saying that you are having troubles adding querystring? I would guess that the problem lies in the javascript junction that adds data to the url. Shouldn't it be more like:

function dothing
...
window.open("do.asp?myDate="+Date.parse(Date())+"&myVal=true");
...

If you explain a little more what you are trying to do, I will try to explain more how I would do it.

Jared

[1965]

Thank you very much, jhardman.

Let me explain more. I am using proxy script on server side to dynamically retrieve data from 10 rss sources. When the user clicks on one of rss in browser, I want to pass which rss has been clicked and pass the clicked url and name to a proxy script on server. The proxy script handles retrieval of data based on url/name received, and then send data to browser for parsing in order to display.

I can handle one rss retrieval on server side in STATIC way, using one asp file. That is why I want to know how to pass choices by user to that same script on server in order to have Select Case or QueryString or sth else to retrieve the data that user clicks. That is why I want to pass the value.

As form submit post/get is not suitable in current case, can I have other ways to workaround. Google search on this topic says using a hidden input and when user clicks a link, catch the link in that hidden input box using document.getelementbyid.value. Yes, we can catch that value by using document.getelementbyid.value, but how can i pass that value to the proxy script on server side.

I do not know if i have made it clear.

Thank you again.

[jhardman]

OK, I think I understand the idea, but why is form submit not an option? That is easier and more straight-forward then adding a value to the url, plus url formatting has very specific character restraints and ASP does not have a built-in URLDecode function.

From your example it appears that you are putting the data in the URL but the syntax is garbled. I'm not an expert on javascript but it sounds like it is the javascript that is having a problem, rather than the ASP. After the javascript makes the URL it should look like this:

 "do.asp?myDate=10%2F2%2F2007&myFeed=rssFeed%2Erss"

notice the characters that need to be escaped and notice the syntax of "page.asp?name=value&name=value". Does this answer your question? If this is too tricky, let me see if I can show you how to do it using a form input (which is a lot simpler).

Jared