[thelist] Sharing data between ASP and JavaScripts

[Jerry Scannell]

David,

You hit what I want to do right on the head.  I don't want to give up so
easy, though.

I have an idea.  If I have a Session() variable that I can set to 1 if the
user wishes to quit, then I can test for that in my do ... loop.  The only
problem is how to set the Session() variable inside a javascript or
vbscript.  Do you have any idea here?  I know that you can share data from
ASP to javaScript but can you go the other way??  For instance, assume I
have an ASP variable.  In javascript I can do:

<script language="javascript">
function funcName()
{
   var s = <%=Session("varname")%>;
   .
   .
   return true;
}
</script>

How about going the other way? If I could set a session variable from within
a javascript I would be all set.  Perhaps with remote scripting???

Jerry
----- Original Message -----

From: <David.Cantrell at Gunter.AF.mil>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 10:44 AM
Subject: RE: [thelist] Sharing data between ASP and JavaScripts


> > I have a database loop that's running some ASP code.  I would
> > like the user to be able to cancel the operation cleanly.
> > What I'm looking to do is perhaps have a "cancel" button
> > whose onClick event sets a flag.  I could then test the flag
> > at the end of my do ... loop and gracefully exit.  I can't
> > seem to think of a scheme where a piece of data that is set
> > by a client operation can be tested from within an ASP loop.
>
> Sounds like you want the user to click a URL in their browser and run an
ASP
> process on the server, and while that ASP process is running have the user
> cancel it, right?
>
> Nope, can't do it that way, at least not that I can see. Once you kick off
> the ASP process you will pretty much have to wait until it is finished,
> unfortunately. If there were some way for IIS to register that "this user
is
> no longer connected" then it could kill the process, but it doesn't do
that.
> This is because every time you click a button or a link in the browser you
> make a *new* request to the server.
>
> HTH,
> -dave
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