[thelist] ASP/posting back to same page

[Madhu Menon]

At 10:24 PM 9/20/2000, thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org penned the following 
words:
> > what kind of refresh?  you can do a server-side redirect with  <%
> > response.redirect "foo.asp" %>, there's also the new Transfer
> > thingie (method?) for IIS5...
>
>Bingo! Server.Transfer()  Zooooooooooom!

I like it!

a) It doesn't send a 302 Object moved back to the browser
b) It maintains form variables (but not page level variables)
c) It's faster than Response.Redirect

but... it only works for pages ON your site, not for external sites, which 
is the only downside I can see.

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