Writing Error and Redirect???

[giahan]

Hi all,

I have a login page (name and password) to limit access a couple pages. I am done with the checking and redirect but I get error message if I do something like this:
<%' login.html %>

<form method=&quot;post&quot; action=&quot;validate.asp&quot;>
Name: <input type = &quot;text&quot; name=&quot;name&quot;>
PWord:<input type = &quot;password&quot; name=&quot;pw&quot;>
<input type=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;submit&quot;>
</form>

<% 'validate.asp %>
If Request.Form(&quot;name&quot = &quot;someName&quot;
AND Request.Form(&quot;pw&quot = &quot;somePw&quot; Then
Response.Redierct &quot;myasp.asp&quot;
Else
Response.Redirect &quot;mylogin.html&quot;
End If
%>

It works fine like that but if I want to display a message say &quot;Invalid name &amp; password&quot; in the login page.

How do I do that???

Thanks for help






GH

 

[Nanda]

try this....

<%'login.asp%>
<form method=&quot;post&quot; action=&quot;validate.asp&quot;>
Name: <input type = &quot;text&quot; name=&quot;name&quot;>
PWord:<input type = &quot;password&quot; name=&quot;pw&quot;>
<input type=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;submit&quot;>
</form>

<% 'validate.asp %>
If Request.Form(&quot;name&quot = &quot;someName&quot;
AND Request.Form(&quot;pw&quot = &quot;somePw&quot; Then
Response.Redirect &quot;myasp.asp&quot;
Else
Response.write (&quot;Invalid Username Or password&quot
Response.write (&quot;<a href='mylogin.asp'>Try Again</a>&quot
'Response.Redirect &quot;mylogin.html&quot;
End If
%>

 

[giahan]

The thing is I don't want to click on &quot;Try Again&quot; to link to my login.html page.
Anyway, I got the solution for it <% Happy %>
Thanks a lot for your prompt response




GH

 

[hblackorby]

When you link back to your original page, try passing a Query String value back.

<% response.redirect(&quot;mylogin.asp?bad=yes&quot %>

Then on your login page you can do this:

<% if request.querystring(&quot;bad&quot = &quot;yes&quot; then %>
<p>Incorrect Password. Please try again.</p>
<% end if %>

You can put that wherever you want. If the query value isn't there, it just will skip it. It won't return an error.

Hope that helps.
Harold Blackorby
hblackorby@scoreinteractive.com
St. Louis, MO