Problem with 'undefined' object In server side JavaScript

[Ophir]

Hello all

I have this problem:
I'm displaying a loggin page.
If the user entered an invalid UserName/Password I display the page
again.
When this happens I want to give the user a different message then the
one
displayed when the page was initially displayed.

I use the Response.Redire ct method from the page checking the
submition.
When I do that I call the page with a parameter like this
Response.Redire ct("Page.asp?FR OM=1").

When I get the parameter in the page I know I need to show a different
message.

The problem is that if the page is called without the parameter, I
cannot determine that the parameter is missing.
The codse is very simple:

from_flag = Request.QuerySt ring("FROM")

Now is the problem -
if I use if(from_flag == 'undefined') - this condition return
false.
but if I display from_flag using Response.Write( from_flag) I get
"undefined"

if I use if(typeof from_flag == "undefined" ) - this does not work
since the typeof return "object" in both cases when I call the page
with the parameter or without the parameter.

also I tried to comnpare with null does not work.

By the way if I use VBScript as the script lang - it works fine I
just need to compare the from_flag with vbNullString and all is well.

How can I do it in JavaScript????

[McKirahan]

"Ophir" <op*****@netvis ion.net.il> wrote in message
news:ec******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com...

Hello all

I have this problem:
I'm displaying a loggin page.
If the user entered an invalid UserName/Password I display the page
again.
When this happens I want to give the user a different message then the
one
displayed when the page was initially displayed.

I use the Response.Redire ct method from the page checking the
submition.
When I do that I call the page with a parameter like this
Response.Redire ct("Page.asp?FR OM=1").

When I get the parameter in the page I know I need to show a different
message.

The problem is that if the page is called without the parameter, I
cannot determine that the parameter is missing.
The codse is very simple:

from_flag = Request.QuerySt ring("FROM")

Now is the problem -
if I use if(from_flag == 'undefined') - this condition return
false.
but if I display from_flag using Response.Write( from_flag) I get
"undefined"

if I use if(typeof from_flag == "undefined" ) - this does not work
since the typeof return "object" in both cases when I call the page
with the parameter or without the parameter.

also I tried to comnpare with null does not work.

By the way if I use VBScript as the script lang - it works fine I
just need to compare the from_flag with vbNullString and all is well.

How can I do it in JavaScript????

How about:

var from_flag = "";
if (Request.QueryS tring() != "") {
from_flag = Request.QuerySt ring("FROM");
}
(The above is pseudo code; I use VBScript for my ASP.)

[Ophir]

"McKirahan" <Ne**@McKirahan .com> wrote in message news:<g32ld.602 872$8_6.435612@ attbi_s04>...

How about:

var from_flag = "";
if (Request.QueryS tring() != "") {
from_flag = Request.QuerySt ring("FROM");
}
(The above is pseudo code; I use VBScript for my ASP.)

McKirahan thanks fore the reply
Your idea will not solve the problem, because if the QueryString will
not contain a "FROM" parameter but something else I will have to ask
later for the value of from_flag and again will be in the same
problem.

How ever I have found out that this solved the problem:

var from_flag = new String(Request. QueryString("FR OM"))

if (from_flag == "undefined" )
{
Do Somthing
}

This code works and if there is no FROM parameter passed to the page
from_flag gets to be undefined and the if works fine.

Thanks again
Ophir