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sparky
I've been working on an ASP driven website, on a client's web hosting
space. One of the project requirements was the ability for the client
to be able to upload files through an HTTP form. No problem - I'd done
plenty of that sort of thing before, but, to cut a long story short, my
usual (component-less) upload scripts generated a multitude of errors
I'd never seen before, and a number of other component-less scripts I
tried to use all failed in perplexing ways.
So, after reading up a bit on probable causes, I found some advice
suggesting that I should try and determine the version of the script
engine running on the server, hence running this script:
Response.Write ScriptEngine() & " " & ScriptEngineMajorVersion() & "."
& ScriptEngineMinorVersion()
The result?: VBScript 3.0
Now, here's where I'm a little confused. Does that number refer to the
vbscript engine version (which, if it does, it is WAAAY out of date!)?
Or the ASP version (which is normal - 3.0, right?)
I'm inclined to think that the 3.0 probably refers to the version of
ASP, because there's no way a professional service provider would be
running such an old release of vbscript (is there?). If I'm not
mistaken it's up to v5.7 or something, isn't it?
Second question: if this does imply that they're running a version of
VBScript that, as far as I can tell, was superceded about a decade ago,
is there any hope for scripting a component-less HTTP upload solution,
or shall I convince the client to get the hosting moved somewhere else
super-quick?!
Thanks very much in advance for any help,
- K
space. One of the project requirements was the ability for the client
to be able to upload files through an HTTP form. No problem - I'd done
plenty of that sort of thing before, but, to cut a long story short, my
usual (component-less) upload scripts generated a multitude of errors
I'd never seen before, and a number of other component-less scripts I
tried to use all failed in perplexing ways.
So, after reading up a bit on probable causes, I found some advice
suggesting that I should try and determine the version of the script
engine running on the server, hence running this script:
Response.Write ScriptEngine() & " " & ScriptEngineMajorVersion() & "."
& ScriptEngineMinorVersion()
The result?: VBScript 3.0
Now, here's where I'm a little confused. Does that number refer to the
vbscript engine version (which, if it does, it is WAAAY out of date!)?
Or the ASP version (which is normal - 3.0, right?)
I'm inclined to think that the 3.0 probably refers to the version of
ASP, because there's no way a professional service provider would be
running such an old release of vbscript (is there?). If I'm not
mistaken it's up to v5.7 or something, isn't it?
Second question: if this does imply that they're running a version of
VBScript that, as far as I can tell, was superceded about a decade ago,
is there any hope for scripting a component-less HTTP upload solution,
or shall I convince the client to get the hosting moved somewhere else
super-quick?!
Thanks very much in advance for any help,
- K