[thelist] Passing POST variables using ASP

Hi Chris,

This sounds like a textbook scenario for WDDX. WDDX (pronounced "widdicks")
is "a free, open XML-based technology that allows Web applications created
with any platform to easily exchange data with one another over the Web."

Basically, it will allow you to serialize an array into an XML packet, that
can be saved as a client or session variable (or - <shiver> - a cookie)
until you're ready to manipulate it, or in this case, insert it into a
database.  It's also great for working in distributed server environments,
where maintaining client state can be a real challenge, or for exchanging
live data between web servers.

For more info on WDDX check out:
http://wddx.org

You can get the SDK for free, and it's easy to setup and use.  I use it with
ColdFusion, it's a snap.  For ASP, I believe it comes as a Windows COM
object.

Have a great Mother's Day y'all,

Seth

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-admin@lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-admin@lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Chris Houston.
> Subject: [thelist] Passing POST variables using ASP
>
>
> 3. This all work perfectly until I need to modify the user's
> data before it
> gets inserted into the database and this modification can't
> be done via HTML
> or javascript on the form submission page. The obvious
> solution is to create
> an intermediate, non-html-displaying ASP page that will
> accept the variables
> from the user, modify them, and pass them to the standardised databse
> manipulation page.  The problem is passing the variables via
> POST to the
> second ASP page.