External Links page

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Topic: External Links page

Posted By: huwnet
Subject: External Links page
Date Posted: 20 September 2004 at 3:22pm

As you all know I am not very good with programming.

However I need to make an external link page.

e.g website www.microsoft.com

link on page = www.huwnet.org.uk/external.aspx.....microsoft.com

page read=

external link blah blah blah click to continue to microsoft.com

Replies:

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 20 September 2004 at 3:38pm

so something like this:

Dim Url As String = Request.QueryString("URL")
hl1.NavigateUrl = Url
...

To go to this link please click <asp:Hyperlink id="hl1" runat="server">here</asp:Hyperlink>?

Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 22 September 2004 at 2:09pm

So the path is www.blah.com/blah.aspx?url=blah.com

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 22 September 2004 at 2:34pm

yep

Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 23 September 2004 at 11:51am

Does asp.net use <% ?

Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 23 September 2004 at 11:52am

and <!--

Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 23 September 2004 at 12:01pm

Here is the code I am using, please tell me what is wrong:

<% Dim Url As String = Request.QueryString("URL")
hl1.NavigateURL = URL %>

<html>
<head>
<title>Huwnet - Redirect</title>
</head>
<body>
<asp:Hyperlink id="hl1" runat="server">Go to site</asp:Hyperlink>?
</body>
</html>

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 23 September 2004 at 12:10pm

First off you need a page declareation (the very first line):

<%@ Page Language = "VB" %>

ASP.NET can use <% %> but theres little point using it as it has been replaced by <script> tags (for inline code). Try this code instead (p.s. next time post the error)



<%@ Page Language = "VB" %>

<script runat="server">

Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)

hl1.NavigateUrl = Server.URLEncode(Request.Querystring("URL"))

End Sub

</script>




<html>


<head>


<title>Huwnet - Redirect</title>


</head>


<body>

<form runat="server" id="form1">


<asp:Hyperlink id="hl1" runat="server">Go to site</asp:Hyperlink>

</form>


</body>


</html>

Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 23 September 2004 at 12:15pm

Works except the link comes out as: http://test.huwnet.org.uk/http%3a%2f%2fwww.microsoft.com

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 23 September 2004 at 12:20pm

scrap the URL encode, change

hl1.NavigateUrl = Server.URLEncode(Request.Querystring("URL"))

to

hl1.NavigateUrl = Request.Querystring("URL")

Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 25 September 2004 at 1:49pm

Thanks that worked well.

Is there any way the script could be changed slightly so that instead of being a hyperlink it could be a page include

e.g http://www.huwnet.org.uk/redirect.aspx?page=article1.html

code=

include=page

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 25 September 2004 at 3:09pm

I don't know why you would want to do that but this should work (presuming the file is on the same server as the web server)



<%@ Page Language="VB" %>

<%@ Import Namespace="System.IO" %>

<script runat="server">



    Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)

    Dim FilePath As String = Server.MapPath(Request.QueryString("page"))



    If Path.GetExtension(FilePath).ToLower = ".html" or _

    Path.GetExtension(FilePath).ToLower = ".htm" Then



    Dim sr As StreamReader



    Try

    sr = New StreamReader(FilePath)

    Catch ex As Exception

    litArticle.Text = "<b>Error:</b> " & ex.Message

    Exit Sub

    End Try



    litArticle.Text = sr.ReadToEnd()



    sr.Close()

    End If

    End Sub



</script>

<html>

<head>

</head>

<body>

    <form runat="server">

        <h1>View Article

        </h1>

        <h1><font size="3">Here is the article you requested:</font>

        </h1>

        <p>
 
         &nbs p; 
<asp:Literal id="litArticle" runat="server"></asp:Literal>

        </p>

    </form>

</body>

</html>

Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 26 September 2004 at 8:48am

Using that code i get:

View Article

Here is the article you requested:

&nbs p;

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 26 September 2004 at 10:26am

You have to add the ?page=artcle.html to the end of the URL

Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 26 September 2004 at 12:26pm

I did. See http://www.huwnet.org.uk/redirect.aspx?page=top.asp

Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 26 September 2004 at 12:28pm

UPDATE: With html http://www.huwnet.org.uk/redirect.aspx?page=donate.html

It works but you still get &nbs p;
With asp it doesn't work at all.

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 26 September 2004 at 12:33pm

Just delete the &nbs p; before the literal control - WWF must have put it in for some reason. That script will only display htm and html files so that nobody can peek at the source code of your asp and aspx pages

Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 26 September 2004 at 1:08pm

Ok, is there any way to get it to process the asp/aspx and then display it?

Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 26 September 2004 at 1:13pm

Without the &nbs p; it just displays:

View Article

Here is the article you requested:

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 26 September 2004 at 1:31pm

Try it with a html page again, it will not work with ASP

Posted By: Diep-Vriezer
Date Posted: 26 September 2004 at 4:47pm

Or use an iframe. But why don't you create somesort of web user control? Would be a lot easier.

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Gone..

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 26 September 2004 at 5:02pm

I agree, or store the articles in a database

Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 28 September 2004 at 1:52pm

Diep-Vriezer wrote:

Or use an iframe. But why don't you create somesort of web user control? Would be a lot easier.

I am learning xml, access etc and then it will run from a database.

Mart that script works great but is there any way of changing it so that it will also process asp/asp.net?

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 28 September 2004 at 3:29pm

It won't actually process ASP or ASP.NET, but it will display the source... I made it so only htm and html can be displayed so nobody can go peeking at your source code by redirect.aspx?page=default.asp revealing all your source code...

And before you ask - no you cannot get it to process ASP, you can get it to process ASP.NET but its rather complicated.. If you want to do that take a look at the cassini source project over at www.asp.net but I think it will go straight over your head

Posted By: Diep-Vriezer
Date Posted: 28 September 2004 at 5:50pm

Indeed. You are only adding like 2 lines of text above it..

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Gone..

Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 01 October 2004 at 1:05pm

Mart wrote:

I agree, or store the articles in a database

are the any basic tutorials on how to do this?

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 01 October 2004 at 2:16pm

yes