window.open and server.urlencode

[tinac99]

Hi,

I passed an encoded URL as one of the parameters in the window.open function in Javascript.

Calling window
---------------
e.g.
../ViewDetail.asp?Symbol=ABCDE&Targetpage=http%3A%2F%2Ffinance%2Eyahoo%2Ecom%2Flookup%3Ft%3DM%26m%3DUS%26s%3D

The equivalent of Targetpage is

http://finance.yahoo.com/lookup?t=M&m=US&s=

Called window
--------------
When I try to get the value of the TargetPage in the called window in ASP:

strTarget = Request("TargetPage")

it only gets the url up until the first parameter:

http://finance.yahoo.com/lookup?t=M

This seems to work when I do use
<a href=../ViewDetail.asp?Symbol=ABCDE&Targetpage=http%3A%2F%2Ffinance%2Eyahoo%2Ecom%2Flookup%3Ft%3DM%26m%3DUS%26s%3D>ABCDE</a>, retrieving the whole TargetPage string.

I was wondering why it wouldn't work with window.open in Javascript. I need to set the features of the called window(menubar,scrollbars,toolbar, etc...). If you have any answer, please let me know.

Also, is there a way to set these features of the called window(menubar,scrollbars,toolbar) in Javascript inside the called window?

Please advise.


Thank you very much,

Tina

 

[nickdel]

Tina, can you post your code? (not all, just the relevant bits!)

Thanks

Nick

 

[nickdel]

Tina, thinking about it, I know why it does this!

The reason you are only seeing:

http://finance.yahoo.com/lookup?t=M

is because even though you are encoding the url to pass to the popup, when the popup window opens the browser decodes it so looking at your full url:

ViewDetail.asp?Symbol=ABCDE&Targetpage=

http://finance.yahoo.com/lookup?t=M&m=US&s=

The parameters you are actually passing here are:
Symbol=ABCDE
Targetpage=

http://finance.yahoo.com/lookup?t=M

m=US
s=

because of the "&m" asp treats this as a new parameter.

So what you wanna do is have javascript fetch the encoded url from the original window. Something like this:

document.write(top.opener.document.getElementById('EncodedUrl').value);

And put a hidden field on your orignal page (in the above example I put this:

<input type="hidden" value="ViewDetail.asp?Symbol=ABCDE&Targetpage=http%3A%2F%2Ffinance%2Eyahoo%2Ecom%2Flookup%3Ft%3DM%26m%3DUS%26s%3D" id="EncodedUrl">

And there you have it!

Cheers

Nick

 

[nickdel]

Tina, did this work out for you?

 

[tinac99]

Thanks for your reply!

I have a question, though...
the line:

document.write(top.opener.document.getElementById('EncodedUrl').value);

Will this be in the calling window(1st window) or in the called window(2nd window)?

 

[tinac99]

Hi nickdel,

I was able to make it to work. Thanks a lot!

Tina

 

[nickdel]

Sorry, yeh it goes in the pop up window. I only used document.write to demonstrate it was working!

Nick