unwanted form action - viewstate problem

[boro2g]

Hi,

I am re-writing the 404 error page for my site to offer a more attractive error state. I have set up IIS so that 404's point to a file /error/404.aspx - this works fine

In this page (404.aspx) I parse the querystring to extract the url that was typed (or linked to) and display this value in a textbox (vm_redirect.Text = parsedURL) - this also works fine.

There is a submit button available to the user, if they want to retry the page (or can amend string)

The code for the section embeds the button and textbox within a form

<form runat="server" id="redirectFormId">
<asp:textbox id="vm_redirect" size="50" runat="server" />
<asp:button id="vm_submit" text="Go" OnClick="redirectForm" runat="server" EnableViewState="false"/>
</form>

I also have my sub fn - redirectForm - this should redirect the user to the new page

Sub redirectForm(ByVal vm_src As Object, ByVal vm_args As EventArgs)
Response.Redirect((vm_redirect.Text).ToString())
End Sub

This however causes a file not found error - if i view the source of the page, the form's action is

action="404.aspx?404;

http://10.10.10.12/err"

Is there any way i can prevent this from happening - so that any 404 leads to /error/404.aspx, but then when the user clicks 'go' - it tries to redirect to the string they have entered

Many thanks in advance
Boro

 

[boro2g]

sorry, one v small correction, the enableviewstate is actually on the textbox

cheers

 

[checkai]

turn the enabledviewstate of the button back on?

"...we both know I'm training to become a cagefighter...see what happens if you try 'n hit me..."

 

[boro2g]

Thanks for that, unfort the same problem is still in place - when i view the source of the page, the action attached to the form is still
action="404.aspx?404;

http://10.10.10.12/erro"

(

http://10.10.10.12/erro

is the page which causes the 404)

although i want the action to be to redirect the user to the page in the textbox (either set from 404 error, or when the user modifies it)

thanks again