All I want to do is read a file from a different web server and display its contents within an ASP page. This will allow me to provide continuously updated content for this page on a bunch of other sites. This is a piece of cake using PHP, but I'm striking out using ASP. In PHP: <?php $...more >>

I surveyed market penetration of various server-side technologies using Google's search facility. Results are in number of occurrences of each file extension: FileExt Occurrences ==================== ..PHP 324M ..ASP 243M ..CGI 171M ..JSP 38M ..ASPX 23M Despi...more >>

Is it possible to post the form data and open the page as a modal window? Because when I do the following, it will open page2.asp in a new window, but I still able to manipulate page1.asp. I want to make page2.asp as modal window. <form action="http://server2/page2.asp" method="post" target="_...more >>

The following will both post the form data using HTTP POST method to the server2, and then open page2.asp, right? It is not posting form data to server1. The only difference is that #1 will just replace page1.asp with page2.asp. But in #2, it will open a new window for page2.asp, and page1.asp a...more >>

Hi! Any one has Idea, How to use Server.Transfer and Server.Execute, When I tried to use these methods I got an eror: Server object error 'ASP 0230 : 80004005' Server.Transfer Error /SISWeb/portal_logon.asp, line 40 The call to Server.Transfer failed while loading the page. anybody is t...more >>

I'm about to massively rework how my site handles links. The concept behind the site is to provide a wide-collection of links related to attractions in and around Orlando as well as other sites of interest. I am REALLY, REALLY, REALLY wanting to provide an option where descriptions of the si...more >>

Hello All I want to place a Excel workbook on the web server and create a URL link to it and when the user clicks on it to the URL/vbscript behind it must launch Excel on the client and open the URL linked Excel workbook automatically. Can you please share the code HTMl & VB script snippet ...more >>

Hi i'm trying to search a remote website page. The form returns xml information, though the page extension is missing. I retrieve the information and write it to the screen. So far so good - However i cannot format this information in anyway. A copy of the returned information saved to my server...more >>

ASP code looks like this (win2k, IIS 5, Win2k AD): <% Set oUser = GetObject("WinNT://ourdomain/testuser") response.write("user = " & oUser.Name) %> output is this: error '80070035' /cyphir/auth/test.asp, line 2 The .asp page is running as 'testuser'. This works on our test domain,...more >>

I am trying to return a 2 dimensional array from a VB component, with no luck I get the array, it has the right Ubound for the first dimension, but 0 for the second. it works find when called from VB but fails when called from ASP Can this be done? ...more >>

Hi folks, (Need comments if you have done something like this before. Any response would be greatly appreciated.) We've recently been prototyping the idea of completely avoiding the server building the eventual/final HTML for the browsers. So far we've got this: 1. Create separate ASP p...more >>

Windows 2000 Active Directory, IIS 5 ASP code looks like this: Set oUser = GetObject("WinNT://DOMAIN/" & strNTName) oUser.ChangePassword strPassword, strNewPassword If (err.number <> 0) Then response.write(err.number) End If This code works on our test system, but gives an ...more >>

Hi all, Am trying to run a message service using net send via our intranet - basically the user selects the poeple on the network who they want to send a message to from a drop-down list on a form and on submit a loop is run - here's a snippet of the code (inside a for loop) <% elseif Req...more >>

I did not expect this to work as expected: <% function a() %>ha !<br><% end function a a a a a %> So, why do we use so much response.writes? -- Evertjan. The Netherlands. (Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)...more >>

HI below is my asp form that collects fields from a web page encoded in windows-1251. I have a pretty smooth brain and cannot figure out how to get this script to send readable emails to the moscow address in windows-1251. Can anyone show me what the script should look like < ToEmail="arussian...more >>

Hi, Al There is a xml file, I want to read/write it in ASP. As following source code, dim objXm Set objXML = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM" objXML.async = Fals objXML.load server.mappath("../online.xml" If objXML.parseError.er...more >>

I have setup basic authentication on one of my web sites. For some reason, I get challenged when I navigate to some of the ASP's within the website. I have checked all the pages and made sure they all have authorisation set to a specific group. What can be causing this ? ...more >>

Can anyone please help with some VBScripting that would enable me to search thru Word documents (Word 2000 format) and return the filenames to use in a archive search on a legal website.? TIA .les. o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o Les Juby lesju...more >>

http://aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2311 Sample: http://aspfaq.com/treeview This works perfectly on Windows IE 6.x and Mac IE. However, in order to be cross-platform compatible, I need to make this work on Mac Safari and Mozilla Firefox. Could someone point out how to fix this code to make it ...more >>

I would like to append to a file, AS WELL AS, send an email via ASP....I have some sample code from ASP101.com and am planning on modifying it to my uses but I don't know where exactly I should place it....Should I begin a whole new set of ASP commands or should I incorporate it into the current...more >>

Hi, Using IIS 5.0 and sometime some asp pages (absolutely randomly) showing as blank white pages. So far only one way of fixing it - restart whole server. Restarting IIS, or specific web server not helping, only whole server. I enable server side and client side debugging, but no error...more >>

I'm running Win2000 with IIS installed. My PC was working perfectly, until today. Now, when I go to http://localhost/... it will show any HTML pages BUT, if I change the extension to ASP (even with no ASP code in the file) then I get a "page can not be displayed" error. I get an accompany...more >>

I changed the datatype of a field in a SQL Server 2000 database from nvarchar to ntext, but now nothing is being displayed. The "Body" column of the datatable used to be nvarchar(8000) and the below code works fine. However once I changed the datatype of "Body" from nvarchar to ntext, it no lon...more >>

All -- This occasionally happens, and there's no set pattern on why this is... perhaps it happens a few times every few months or so. I have a custom ATL COM object that handles data from multiple pages and sites on my server. Occasionally, I'll get the following errors: ASP_0241|CreateO...more >>

Hi, I'm having a problem using CDONTS to send mail from my site. Recently we switched providers and since then the line Set objNewMail = CreateObject( "CDONTS.NewMail") is causing an internal server error. What could be causing this? Is there a way to get more detailed information abou...more >>

I frequently come across a small problem with my stored procedures; there are plenty of way around it, but I'm figuring that maybe my approach is subtly wrong. My typical code to call an Stored Proc in ASP is as follows sSQL = "Exec MySP 'xxx', 111, 'yyy', 222" oConn.Execute sSQL Usually...more >>

My client has a laregly static web site in English only. I will be adding e-commerce functionality shortly. Therefore, I am seeking an approach to allow users to select a language to view the entire site with. I have ASP Classic at my disposal. The site has no back-end database. I am thinki...more >>

Hey all I've got a web-based "database admin console" that uses ADOX, etc. to query a database and return the tables, columns, etc to a form that I can then use to build SQL statements to run against that database. It's very "generic" - i.e., everything is dymanically created but pretty handy to h...more >>

hello when I run a script on my server I get a error messeage.. Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01ad' ActiveX component can't create object: 'CDO.message I don't know how to solve it,Thank you for your reply^_^...more >>

If I have 1 Virtual Dirctory with 2 different subfolders are these 2 = different folders different virtual folders? Or if I have 2 different = Virtual Directories each containing a subfolder are these two subfolders = 2 different virtual folders? I know it seems like a weird question but = I'm...more >>

I am trying to crawl my site to get a list of links. I am using the regular expressions to get the href tags from the pages and reading the links using xmlhttp module. is there an efficient way to loop through the links? If you start with the home page, how do you do it? How do yo ukeep tra...more >>

Hi I am trying to append information collected from a form into a text file (already created and currently in the root of my web) on my ISP's webserver. The code snippet causing the problem is; ...... 37 <% 38 Dim fso, f, TextFile 39 TextFile = Server.MapPath("mail.txt") 40 Const ForReading ...more >>

I want to submit the form to the server without opening another page. When we do the following, it will submit the form data in myform to the IIS, and open page2.asp. <form name="myform" action="page2.asp" method="post"> But I don't want to open another page, I just want to submit the form...more >>

Is it possible to post form data and open an invisible window? For example, in page1.as <form action="page2.asp" method="POST" It will post the form data from page1.asp to the server, and open page2.asp. But I dont want to make page2.asp invisible. Any ideas?? Is it possible? Please advise. ...more >>

Hi I have created asp pages to submit logs online. It is used generally to log from handset similar to iPAQ, Pocket PC. I have on html form and one submit button. On pressing submit , it redirects to other pages and inserts log into db. But the problem is when they press submit, it takes a ...more >>

Hello, can someone help! I am getting an error: Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d Type mismatch /bps/srch-detail.asp, line 137 I didn't write this asp - I know very little about asp - I'm just trying to get this site working on my server! I think the offending lie is this: ...more >>

Hi Gang Our network administrator does not want to install the IIS SMTP server on our intranet. He wants me to use our existing SMTP server "mail.smpi.siemens.ca". Can I do this with IIS?? Is this a setting in an ASP if I'm not running the IIS SMTP server? We are running on Windows 2000 ...more >>

Is it possible to call a stored procedure asynchronously from an ASP page? We would like to be able to execute a proc and have the page continue to process without having to wait for the proc to finish. I know you can make a dll and call it from there, but we'd rather just be able to keep it sim...more >>

Hello here is a pattern I am using in regexp module: href(.*?)[\x22>][^\x22]*\x22 This string seems to work in that it will return href = "http://www.domain.com" from href tags such as this. <a href = "http://www.domain.com">This is a link</a> it handles the spaces that may exist bef...more >>

In my response.write line, I need to format a field to be a currency value. Is there a quick and dirty way to do it or is it an involved edit? Here is my code: Response.Write("<td>" & WhataRecordset.Fields.Item(0).Value & "</td><td>" & WhataRecordset.Fields.Item(1).Value & _ "</td><t...more >>

Is it possible to define an account in <Identity> in web.config which dosen't exist in domain??? The following line is in somebody's ASP.Net application: I was viewing somebody's application I found the following line in his web.config <identity impersonate="true" userName="DOMAIN_NAME\ASP...more >>

Hi... I have to allow access for administrators to sections of my website which contain sensitive data. Ther is a link on the homepage called "Admin Login". They are asked for a PIN number which is a randon four letter four number combo and if they get that correct then have to enter their p...more >>

I am a novice to ASP.NET, so this is probably an easy question to answer. I filled a datagrid from an oracle db using an ODBC connection. I am connected to the data source and have no compilation errors, but the output within the <asp: tags does not display anything: <html> <body><form ...more >>

Hello, I have an asp page that produces output from a database. This allows a simple way for the user to save the data to a text file by going to File->Save as... The default save as options always defaults to a particular filename and the save as type is always html, therefore the user has...more >>

Hi forum I have three text fields set up on a page that when submitted I want them to be inserted in to a table but in differnt records at once. the code below only seems to insert the last field <%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%> <% var colorForm = String(Request.Form("color")); ...more >>

Application X has three screens. The user captures information on screen one and then clicks a navigation button to go onto screen two. He does the same on screen three. At the bottom of screen three is a submit button. When this button is clicked the system does some calculations with the infor...more >>

I am facing a problem on Session. Firstly i am getting log in the application and woring with my some windows. now keeping that other window open and now from that main window i am logging out. so it throws me to the login page (as i am logged out). I am also clearing and abandoning the se...more >>

Hi, I am trying to find a debugger that I can step thru ASP following the code, like VB does using F8 to step thru code. If there is anything like this, please point me into the right direction. Thank you, jt ...more >>

I always see people do something like that, and when the link is clicked, it will open a new page. <P><a href="profile.asp?id=493">Item 1<a> <P><a href="profile.asp?id=495">Item 2<a> <P><a href="profile.asp?id=497">Item 3<a> I want to know if is implemented in this way: In profile.asp ...more >>

hi guys which is the best to generate pdf file and print table data.. I'already visited http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2207 but couldnt decided which component is easy to use and user friendly.. thanx dave...more >>

Hi, all There is a problem about ASP session ID. ASP session is implemented by storing session id in a session cookie, but I read this cookie in ISAPI Filter, get a string as following: ASPSESSIONIDQADCQQTS = IAOFCBBCGDGMDGCNJIKPNBAN But the real session ID is 554851848. (Real sessionID is sessio...more >>

Lo all, This is rather embarrassing.... I am having some difficulties with an html table... I have... 1 left nav bar which spans 2 rows to the right - these are used for horizontal navigation (top), and main content (bottom). I have used this many times before and everythings been ok...more >>

I'm curious as I am in need of advice on how I can move a site from an old Win 2K server, to it's new home on a Win 2003 server, without having to mess around with downloading/uploading the file's (there's over 30,000 file's/folders, so it would take forever to do it manually). Thus, anyone ha...more >>

I have an application which makes extensive use of the Scripting.Dictionary object. I'm not doing anything silly like putting them outside the page scope -- just creating quite a few of them and stuffing quite a lot of data (from and MS SQL database) into them. On Windows 2000 server, everythi...more >>

I recently began maintenance work on a production web server that is located in the root directory of a web server. I moved this into a sub web on my local web server in order to do work on it. I found that there is an include file that references images: <img src = "/images/Header.gif" Wha...more >>

We have an ASP application that restarts several times a day, and users lose their session information and have to log back in. In the Event Log, I see the following entries: Faulting application w3wp.exe, version 6.0.3790.0, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00000000...more >>

So, I get all excited to to pump some data into these PDFs that some loan-sharks want to use on their intranet, and then I find that the Adobe Acrobat SDK doesn't support .NET (which they said they did); however, one may access a little "tip" from Adobe if one joins their dev community for the low a...more >>

Is there a way where an end user can download multiple files with one click? I have a database table that can return between 1 and 12 different filenames (JPGs). I'd like to have a single button on the page that will initiate the download of all of them simultaneously. Is this possible? ...more >>

Hi, I have an asp page that does a lot of processing and reports it's finished by printing the word "Success". For example: <% SomeFunction(SomeVar) SomeFunction(SomeVar1) SomeFunction(SomeVar3) Response.Write("Success") %> For one of our clients the word "Success" no longer ...more >>

I have a form that displays information selected from an Access Data base. A select statement is used to do this on my asp page SQLQuery = "SELECT * FROM tblopgaCOm2 WHERE billNo = '" & Request.Form("BILLNO") & "' AND area LIKE 'AUDIT'" billNo and area are the 2 fields used together ...more >>

I'm relatively new to coding activex and I have a problem. I've written an activex component in c++ and I am now using asp/vb pages to access the object. Is it possible to access constants that I've defined in the activex object? For example, can I do something like the following: Dim cons...more >>

Does anyone see anything OUTRIGHT that I can fix on this....I'm a virgin ASP'er and I'm trying to produce an email from a form submission button....This is just my little "template" for future use (I have several pages that will require online submission) I'm not getting any emails and I'm not...more >>

Hi, this is a long shoot! I need to get text posted from a webpage to a image. The text needs to be displayed with fonts that I can't use in a webpage. This is to be used submitting textadds from the web, later to be published in a newspaper. The image it self will not be published, I need ...more >>

Hi all, Sorry if this sounds a little ambiguous, but.... I have a page with 4 submit buttons. How can I make 1 of these buttons spawn a new page AND use the data posted from the orginal page? Can this be down. I know I could do it with a querystring but I perfer not too. Cheers, Bill. ...more >>

In Windows 2000 IIS 5 SP3 this: http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=3Dkb;en-us;276488 is not working. No error but wants to save binary.asp to disk and = can't. I have it in a High Isolation Application. Think that's the = trouble? --=20 George Hester _________________________________...more >>

Hi, I have a page that allows user input. On click of the submit button I call a javascript function that verifies that all of the fields are filled out and then submits the form. I need to add code after the verification that creates and sends an email. I know how to do this in VBscript, but ...more >>

I have 3 servers server1: http://server1/login.asp, http://server1/page1.as server2: http://server2/login.asp, http://server2/page1.as server3: http://server3/login.asp, http://server3/page1.as When the user login the username and password in http://server1/login.asp, and clic submit button, i...more >>

Hi I user Server.Transfer "MyTest.asp" to redirect the ASP page and it went through successfully If I used Server.Transfer "MyTest.asp?R=22 The system return "An invalid character was specifiied in the Path parameter for the MapPath method." error (It seems that system treat parameter strin...more >>

Hello all I have a strange problem at the moment .I use iis5 to do my asp pages with vb scripts when i set session("myvar")="anyvalue" in my first page i cannot read the session variable in my second page If i try to get xx=Session("myvar") it returns noting Is this something to do wi...more >>

hello all I have an asp application which uses IIS 5 . I need to expire my session in 10 minutes . I use session.expire=10 in my index.html page. when the session is expired in 10 minutes i need to redirect the respons to the login page agein. how can i do this Please help me /Thanks in adv...more >>

Hello, I have created a web service that will return SQL Server's Northwind productid quantity. If i access my web service from the Internet, i type the following: http://www.mydomainnametest.com/northwind2/inventory.asmx then i click on one of the web services there, for example GetInv...more >>

Hi all, How do I add controls in an asp page at runtime ? Does anyone have a sample piece of code? or sample? or link? thanks. ...more >>

Hello Can someone give me an example how to use the Imagemagick - Identity command? Cheers Jim...more >>

Hello I´ve ran into trouble after a server upgrade. Win server 2003, IIS ver. 6. All regional settings on the server is swedish(that´s what i want) and it looks correct in all ways but when running the date function in a asp page it returns english short date format 24/5/2004 when I think it s...more >>

I am working on a project that requires me to check the number of rows in a table with the same HTML "ID" value. I do this in my code with: i = document.all(rowid).length However, if the number of rows with the same ID is greater than 8, it always returns 8 (not 9, 10, etc.) Also, I am...more >>

i have a field with a list of wrong ID (random) and i wish to replac them with a sequential (auto-increment) value. how to remove the valu and to add in the sequential ID? Im a newbie in ASP! Pls Help - dion ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted vi...more >>

Hello, We use the following configuration on our development environment: Server - win2k spk4 Local Computer - win2k spk3 We use the following code on the server to access a page on the local IIS : Set objSrvHTTP = Server.CreateObject ("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.4.0") strUrl = "http://" & st...more >>

Just looking up a way to convert dates to Oracle format and found this function in the forum: <SCRIPT language="vbscript" runat="server"> Function ConvertToOracleDate(dtmDate) If IsDate(dtmDate) Then Dim arData(2) arData(0) = Right("00" & Day(dtmDate),2) arData(1) = UCase(MonthN...more >>

Hi all. I'm having trouble connecting to my sql server database correctly beacause of value type problems, specifically the date fields. When i try and run the page i get the follwoing error: 'Application uses a value of the wrong type for the current operation.' I beleive the problem is...more >>

Hi, I have a form containing (among other things) date fields for which i have a date validation script. What i need to happen is when the user presses the submit button the date validation script is run and only if the date is correct is the form submited. What i have done so far is: -C...more >>

I'm trying to interrogate an incoming value from a previous ASP like this .... myCurrentQty = request.querystring("txtBCQty" & myRecordCounter) It returns a "2" as expected. But if I try to compare its value to another number, like this ... if myCurrentQty > 0 then .... I get...more >>

Hello, I've been trying to make my db web applications to work in my test server and I keep getting this everytime I try to modidy the database: Microsoft JET Database Engine error '80004005' Operation must use an updateable query. The curious thing is that in my web hosting provider...more >>

Our windows 2000 server will not allow any browser to access asp pages. I have tried browsing to the following url: http://localhost/iisHelp/iis/misc/default.asp What appears in the browser is: The page cannot be displayed http 500 - Internal Server Error We have stopped and rest...more >>

hi all, recently i've installed vs.NET 2003 on my pc which is runing window 2000 pro with sp4, but when i'm trying to create new ASP.NET Web appication i got this messages "Visual Studio .NET has detected that the specified Web server is not running ASP.NET version 1.1. You will be unable to ...more >>

Hi All Can anyone explain why the expression "AscW(ChrW(38321))" is equal to -27215 ? (38321 is the Unicode code for one of the Chinese traditional characters) AscW is supposed to return a Long value, isn't it? This also happens in VB6 Cheers Elie Grouchko ...more >>

Huge thank you to those who posted thought relating to my previous post regarding dates. I have another enquiry, that being how do i find what day name (ie: Monday) is associated to a given date. Adam ...more >>

When I browse to HTTP://localhost/defacult.asp, it shows the message: Server Application Error The server has encountered an error while loading an application during the processing of your request. Please refer to the event log for more detail information. Please contact the server admi...more >>

I looped a record set to display and I found a strnage thing. as Do While NOT rsBinAct.EOF l_bin = rsBinAct.Fields("o_bin") l_niin = rsBinAct.Fields("o_bin_niin") l_b = LEFT(l_niin, 3) l_n = RIGHT(l_niin, LEN(l_niin)-3 ) ' display l_bin, l_b, l_...more >>