Include ASP using Javascript

[Fianna Sidhe]

I have an ASP script called blah.asp. I wanted to include it in
another ASP file on another server, without using <!--#include etc.

I had seen another script that looked similar to:
<script language="javascript"
src="http://www.mydomain.com/blah.asp"><script>

But when I tried it nothing showed up on the main ASP page. If I run
"http://www.mydomain.com/blah.asp" file on its own it runs fine. Can
anyone point me in the right direction?

TIA

[Andrew Thompson]

On 27 Dec 2004 22:06:41 -0800, Fianna Sidhe wrote:

I have an ASP script called blah.asp. I wanted to include it in
another ASP file on another server, without using <!--#include etc.
Why? (I assume that is the way an include is done in ASP)
I had seen another script that looked similar to:
<script language="javascript"
src="http://www.mydomain.com/blah.asp"><script> [1]

To be blunt Fianna, what you are attempting seems both pointless
and silly.

Silly, because you are replacing a server-side feature that you
have acess to, in lieu of a client-side technology that may or may
not be enabled (or even present).

Pointless, because it will not work. You need to include the
material at the server, whereas JS runs on the client.
Note that their *are* ways to have further text appear in pages
that is written by a JS script, but thay are *almost* *always*
bad scripts for the very fact that non-JS browsers will not
render the content.
But when I tried it nothing showed up on the main ASP page.

[1] As an aside, that snippet above appears to be that the '.asp'
file is generating the JS, so that page is actually referencing
a file that contains JS (and only JS).

Use ASP for your include. Any which way you cut it, it makes
a great deal more sense.

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[fianna_sidhe]

I love being called silly and pointless. It really makes my day. I know
diddly about javascript so that is why I posted looking for help.

I suppose I could have explained myself better. What I wanted was to
use JS to include results from an ASP page in an non-ASP page. So a
person with a plain HTML page could use a snippet of JS on their HTML
page and access results from my database.

Your aside is what got me pointed in the right direction.
<snip>

[1] As an aside, that snippet above appears to be that the '.asp'
file is generating the JS, so that page is actually referencing
a file that contains JS (and only JS).
</snip>

Here is my solution.

1) On the display page display.html I inserted the following line:

<script language="javascript"
src="http://www.mydomain.com/blah.asp"></script>

2) Inside the blah.asp page:

<%
Dim con, rs, strCon

Set con = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
strCon = mYcONNECTIONsTRING
con.Open strCon

StrSQL = "SELECT blah from tblBlah Where Blah=Blah"
rs.Open strSQL, con

%>

document.write("End Result: <%=rs("Blah")%>");
In the end, all I needed was to output my asp result in JS compliant
format using document.write

[Hywel Jenkins]

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fi**********@hotmail.com says...

I have an ASP script called blah.asp. I wanted to include it in
another ASP file on another server, without using <!--#include etc.

I had seen another script that looked similar to:
<script language="javascript"
src="http://www.mydomain.com/blah.asp"><script>

But when I tried it nothing showed up on the main ASP page. If I run
"http://www.mydomain.com/blah.asp" file on its own it runs fine. Can
anyone point me in the right direction?

Won't blah.asp need to output JavaScript content? After all, what's the
JavaScript interpreter in the browser going to do with whatever blah.asp
throws in to it?
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