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Problem Linking Files In Web Page

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Topic: Problem Linking Files In Web Page

Posted By: kennywhite
Subject: Problem Linking Files In Web Page
Date Posted: 02 June 2009 at 4:42pm

I am working on a web page where users will upload files and fill out a description of the file.

If there is a read me or help file included, the user will select a check box indicating that there is more information available and type in the location of that file, which will be held on a separate file server, not the web server itself.

Alternatively, if there is a website that contains more information about the file, the user would type the URL into the field instead.

Here is the code from the page where this info is displayed.


<a href="<%=rs("link")%>"><%=rs("more_information")%></a>

If the check box on the form was selected a link appears (The check box simply puts the text "More Information" into the proper field of the datase).

The problem is that it points to

http://webserver.com/#file:%5C%5Cfileserver%5Chelp.chm" rel="nofollow - http://webserver.com/#file:\\fileserver\help.chm #

instead of

file:///%5C%5Cfileserver%5Chelp.chm" rel="nofollow - file:\\fileserver\help.chm

http://webserver.com/#http://google.com" rel="nofollow - http://webserver.com/#http://google.com #

instead of

http://www.google.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.google.com

If I change the code to


<a href="http://<%=rs("link")%>"><%=rs("more_information")%></a>


<a href="file:\\<%=rs("link")%>"><%=rs("more_information")%></a>

it works, but them I am limited to either just files or just web links. I don't know what to do to fix this.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Replies:

Posted By: cmv
Date Posted: 05 June 2009 at 9:56am

this looks like some kind of intranet ... besides it requires the user to authenticate on the fileserver.

i could think of a solution which stores the information about the type of the link in the recordset like this simplified example:

\\ points to a fileserver, / points to the root of the webserver, http:// points to an external link

strLink = rs("link").Value

If Left(strLink) = "\\" Then intType = 1 Else intType = 0

If intType = 1 Then

strLink = "<a href=""file:\" & strLink & """>" & ...

Else

strLink = "<a href=""" & strLink & """>" & ...

End If

Response.Write(strLink)

hth, christian

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and remember: a CRAY is the only computer that runs an endless loop in just four hours ...

Posted By: kennywhite
Date Posted: 05 June 2009 at 8:38pm

Yes, it is an intranet site and the users are already authenticated to the fileserver.

I tried throwing the code in there, but I got this error message:

Error Type:
Microsoft VBScript compilation (0x800A03F2)
Expected identifier
/tools_update/functions.asp, line 182, column 50
strLink = "<a href=""file:\" & strLink & """>" & ...
-------------------------------------------------^

Any idea why?

Posted By: cmv
Date Posted: 06 June 2009 at 2:40pm

yes - you should finish the line (replace ...) according to your needs ;-) eg.

strLink = "<a href=""file:\" & strLink & """>" & strLink & "</a>"

hth, christian

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and remember: a CRAY is the only computer that runs an endless loop in just four hours ...

Posted By: kennywhite
Date Posted: 08 June 2009 at 9:50pm

I did that and the error that I have now is:

Error Type:
Microsoft VBScript runtime (0x800A01C2)
Wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment: 'left'
/tools_update/functions.asp, line 182