fetch page and set variables 1

mp89 · Nov 5, 2004

I want to fetch a page and set variables without doing a redirect to that page. e.g. in PHP :

$url = '

$req =& new HTTP_Request();
$req->setURL($url);
$req->addQueryString('cmd', 'send');
$req->addQueryString('from', $from);
$req->addQueryString('number', $number);
$req->addQueryString('message', $message);
$req->addQueryString('messageid', $msg_id);
$req->sendRequest();
$res = $req->getResponseBody();

Is this possible in ASP?

Cheers,

Mike

Genimuse · Nov 5, 2004

Yup. The XMLHTTP object (available if IE is installed on the server, which it almost undoubtedly is) can be used to retrieve web resources, including web pages. Here's a short, clear little tutorial:

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/110100-1.shtml

mp89 · Nov 8, 2004

Genimuse,

I've looked through the tutorial, but my code doesn't work. Can you see what is wrong with it?

<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>

<%
Response.Buffer = True
Dim objXMLHTTP, xml
Set xml = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")

'Notice the two changes in the next two lines:
xml.Open "GET", "

http://smssrv/sms/aql.php",

False
xml.Send "cmd=send&from=CALLUM&message=mess&number=447817010766&messageid=64000"

Response.Write xml.responseText

Set xml = Nothing
%>
</body>
</html>

Cheers,

Mike

Tarwn · Nov 9, 2004

What kind of error are you getting?

You should probably put some spare div tags or something around the Response.Write just to make it stand out some. Occaisonally you will get error pages and it is hard to tell if it is the local or remote script that is cholking p (although in your cxase, one would be a 500-100 page and one would be a php error page, but anyways).

Aso, you could print the status property ofyour object and that should return the numeric status for the retrieval (ie, 200, 401, 403, 404, 500, etc)

-T

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