> --- tony <tony@wildtribe.com.au> wrote:
> > I need some javavscript or ASP code that simply allows me to
> > redirect someone who visits my homepage, to a number of sequential 
> > ASP files.
> > ie - when someone arrives at my homepage (default.asp) page they
> > are immediately redirected to default1.asp.And then the next viewer
> > that comes to my default.asp homepage - is immediately sent to 
> > default2.asp. And so on and so on.
> 
> I can't imagine, in the name of all that is usable, why you want to
> do this. But I'm sure you can explain.
> 
> > This also means that if someone comes to my homepage - looks around
> > the site
> > and at some point returns to the homepage - he/she also sees a new
> > homepage.
> 
> You'd have to write a cookie at least then, to know if the user came
> back and hit the page.

Why would you need a cookie? The numerical value of the current version of default.asp is in application scope. You would only need a cookie if you wanted a user to see the same version of default.asp that they saw initially, or definitely *not* see the same version of default.asp that they saw initially. This was not the impression I formed from the original post.

> > As as aside - is there any problem associated with having a script
> > similar to the above on my homepage and Search Engine Robots - I 
> > thought I may have read somewhere in the distant haze that using 
> > redirects on a homepage may be asking for trouble.
> 
> You're asking for trouble. It depends on what kind of redirect too. A
> 301 (permanent) is better than a 302. At my job here, we do redirects
> on our major ecom site and it totally borks our ratings with google.
> We have a real good search engine company retained helping us out
> with a new site and the guy couldn't stress enough how bad this was
> for our rankings.

Yes and no. AFAIK, Server.Transfer will use the same instance of the Response object; so the redirect process would be transparent to search engines. This only just occurred to me just now, so if I'm wrong could someone correct me?

> Maybe if you could elaborate on why you want to do such homepage
> gymnastics, a solution can be suggested. I'm not sure what code to
> even suggest as I'm unclear on what you are really trying to do.

It doesn't seem too tricky to me; although I may have misunderstood the request. How about the following?

<%
Dim g_siDefault
If Application("whichPage") = "" Then Application("whichPage") = 1
Application.Lock
g_siDefault = Application("whichPage")
Application("whichPage") = Application("whichPage") + 1
If Application("whichPage") = 8 Then Application("whichPage") = 1
Application.Unlock
Server.Transfer "default" & g_siDefault & ".asp"
%>

Regards

Chris Marsh