Quick Q regarding querystrings

[Steven Burn]

I'm probably missing something stupidly obvious here but, I've been trying
to figure out how the likes of aspfaq.com etc, do the following;

<domain>/?querystring

I've tried everything I can think of, aswell as (obviously) checking for
this in the default.asp file, Anyone fancy getting rid of my brainfart for
me please?

This is what I put in the default.asp test file;

<%
s = request.querystring("s")
if s = "" then
'// do nothing
else
'// show it
response.write s
end if
%>

..... rest of page content

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[Alan Howard]

Could be a custom 404 with a script to parse the name of the requested URL,
extract the last bit, and redirect.

 

[Steven Burn]

Just my luck......... (I don't have direct access to the server, only my
test server (which isn't connected to the net, and never will be, lol)).

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[Andrew Urquhart]

I'm probably missing something stupidly obvious here but, I've been
trying to figure out how the likes of aspfaq.com etc, do the
following;

<domain>/?querystring

I've tried everything I can think of, aswell as (obviously) checking
for this in the default.asp file, Anyone fancy getting rid of my
brainfart for me please?

<snip/>

Not exactly sure what you're asking but I'm assuming you mean having
URIs with a querystring with just a key and no value such as

domain.com/?key
....instead of...
domain.com/?key=value

If that's the case then: Request.QueryString.Key(1) will return the key
name, the data probably being a primary key, hash table item or filepath
fragment.

 

[Steven Burn]

Andrew,
Not quite what I meant.

I'm actually wondering how they can have;

<domain>/?

All I can get working is;

<domain>/default.asp?

Hope that makes sense?

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[Andrew Urquhart]

I'm actually wondering how they can have;
<domain>/?
All I can get working is;
<domain>/default.asp?

Ah, like www.andrewu.co.uk/webtech/archive/?entry=602 ;-)

I've not had to consciously do anything to make this work, 'default.asp'
is a default document, server is IIS5. Not sure this URI format works on
previous IIS versions though. You could try asking in one of the IIS
groups.

 

[Steven Burn]

Thats exactly what I mean!!, hehe ;o)

Only, without having to have the key, so;

http://www.andrewu.co.uk/webtech/archive/?entry=602

would be (for example)

http://www.andrewu.co.uk/webtech/archive/?602

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[Andrew Urquhart]

Thats exactly what I mean!!, hehe ;o)
Only, without having to have the key, so;

http://www.andrewu.co.uk/webtech/archive/?entry=602
would be (for example)
http://www.andrewu.co.uk/webtech/archive/?602

I don't know what you'll need to do to fix the required default document
issue, omitting the default document from the URI was available to me
'out of the box' for IIS5 under Win2K, try asking in an IIS group. The
value-only querystring can be decoded with the method I mentioned in a
previous post.

 

[Steven Burn]

Cheers Andrew ;o)

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[Jeff Cochran]

Thats exactly what I mean!!, hehe ;o)

Only, without having to have the key, so;

http://www.andrewu.co.uk/webtech/archive/?entry=602

would be (for example)

http://www.andrewu.co.uk/webtech/archive/?602

Then Request.Querystring would be 602. Try:


Test.htm:

<HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>
<A HREF="response.asp?602">Query</A>
</BODY></HTML>

Response.asp:

<% Response.Write Request.QueryString %>

Jeff

 

[Steven Burn]

Cheers Jeff, tis working like a charm ;o)

The below is the reasoning for my asking about this (atleast, part of the
reason).

http://www.it-mate.co.uk/turl/

Call it boredom <gg>

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