All articles with keyword "ASP Built in Objects"

Accessing Request Data

If you're retrieving data from the Request object, you can access it in two different methods: either directly through the Request object or through one of the ...

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ASP Collections

Many of the objects in ASP are actually collection objects. The Cookies, QueryString, and Session objects are all collections. Unlike their Visual Basic cousin,...

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ASP Requires Cookie Support

With all of the panicked people finding information in their cookie files, it's important to remind your users that cookies are required for ASP sites to work p...

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Buffering and Debug Statements

One of the things I do frequently while I'm programming is dump values out to indicate where I'm at as the page executes. However, if an error occurs, you may o...

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Buffering in Windows Server

One change from IIS 4.0 to IIS 5.0 is how buffering is done. Buffering refers to whether content from the ASP page is sent before or after the page is complete....

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Error When Creating Cookies

If you're creating cookies to be sent back to the user's browser, you use the Response.Cookies collection. However, you need to do this before you send any HTML...

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Filtering by Multiple Fields

A user asked how to use the Filter property of the recordset to filter a recordset by more than one field. The answer is to build a more complex WHERE clause to...

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Generating Static HTML from ASP

In some cases, you may want to generate static HTML pages from your ASP pages. In cases where you're not frequently updating pages or only update them periodica...

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Sending Data to Microsoft Word

If you want to send your web page content to Microsoft Word, you can do that using a different content type value. Here's the ContentType change you should use:...

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Server.Transfer vs. Response.Redirect

A user sent me this blurb out of Wrox's ASP 3.0 Programmer's Reference regarding the differences between Server.Transfer and Response.Redirect: The curren...

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Timing Out a Login

A common feature on financial sites is to log a user out after a certain period of time. The easiest way to do this is with the Session object. The Session obje...

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