res:// protocol

[Nik Coughin]

I have some html and xml/xsl where all of the pages, images etc. are being
loaded from a .dll file using the res:// protocol. I am using Internet
Explorer 6.0. Everything works fine, except I don't seem to be able to
submit a form to another page within the dll. I can link to other pages in
the dll, just not submit to them.

This works:
res://C:\test.dll/Invalid

This doesn't:
res://C:\test.dll/Invalid?T1=&T2=&B1=Submit

I get a page not found error.

Does anyone know why this is and how I can get around it?

 

[brucie]

I have some html and xml/xsl where all of the pages, images etc. are being
loaded from a .dll file using the res:// protocol. I am using Internet
Explorer 6.0.

microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.*
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/networking/predefined/res.asp

 

[rf]

I have some html and xml/xsl where all of the pages, images etc. are being
loaded from a .dll file using the res:// protocol. I am using Internet
Explorer 6.0. Everything works fine, except I don't seem to be able to
submit a form to another page within the dll. I can link to other pages in
the dll, just not submit to them.

A form assumes a server at "the other end".

A .dll is not a server.

This works:
res://C:\test.dll/Invalid
Yep.

This doesn't:
res://C:\test.dll/Invalid?T1=&T2=&B1=Submit
I get a page not found error.

Yep. There is no such resourse as "Invalid?T1=&T2=&B1=Submit" in your .dll.

Does anyone know why this is and how I can get around it?

No. There is no way around this. It is the same as if you were to use the
file: protocol. No HTTP server, no forms.

What exactly did you expect to happen?

Cheers
Richard.

 

[Nik Coughin]

Doesn't need an http server becuase I am parsing the GET information with
Javascript. I'm using <form method="GET" action="test.html"> in input.html
and test.html uses Javascript to read the submitted values. Not so hard,
and it works fine with the file:// protocol. So there must be another
reason why it doesn't work. Thanks anyway.

 

[Nik Coughin]

Basically because it doesn't allow for the passing of variables at the end
of the string, ie the ? symbol and following characters are not passed when
using the res protocol. At first I thought that you couldn't pass anything
other than the name of the resource, but anchors work fine, ie
res://test.dll/test#test3.

 

[rf]

[top posting corrected]

That's different then.

Basically because it doesn't allow for the passing of variables at the end
of the string, ie the ? symbol and following characters are not passed when
using the res protocol. At first I thought that you couldn't pass anything
other than the name of the resource,

Er, I don't think this is the problem.

When you use file:// or res:// your request is farmed out to the operating
system. The OS is quite particular about what can and can not be in a file
name and it is also quite literal. Give it a resource name of
"Invalid?T1=&T2=&B1=Submit" and that is exactly what it will search for.
This resource is, of course, not present in your .exe file.

The pulling apart of the above URL into a *page* called Invalid and some
*parameters* is done by an HTTP server. The file system does not know about
such things.

but anchors work fine, ie
res://test.dll/test#test3.

The reasson this works is that the browser is stripping off the #test3 bit
in anticipation of an anchor with that name appearing when it fires off
res://test.dll/test. The #test3 is never sent to the server/file system.

AFAIK there is no solution to your problem, except perhaps to stuff the
parameters into a cookie that the next page can read.

Cheers
Richard.

 

[Nik Coughin]

The reasson this works is that the browser is stripping off the #test3 bit

in anticipation of an anchor with that name appearing when it fires off
res://test.dll/test. The #test3 is never sent to the server/file system.

AFAIK there is no solution to your problem, except perhaps to stuff the
parameters into a cookie that the next page can read.

Cheers
Richard.

Bah. Ah well, it's not critical anyway. Thanks for your help!