[thelist] dynamic includes in ASP?

[Madhu Menon]

At 10:53 AM 31-12-02, Jeremy Weiss wrote:
>why not have a
>page called main.asp and all the links point to something like
>
>main.asp?pageurl="filenamehere.asp"

Two reasons:

1) Not friendly towards search engines
2) Potential security hole. If someone can get a page to be executed by
just adding its URL as a parameter, that's a hole.

Nevertheless...


>and have the VBScript pull the value for pageurl and use it in the include
>further down the page like...
>
><!--#include file="<%=pageurl%>"-->
>
>Great idea I thought... unfortunately it's not working.  I keep getting an
>error that says
>
>The include file '<%=pageurl%>' was not found.


That's because includes are processed before the ASP engine gets to the ASP
file.

If you want to do this, however, IIS 5.0 introduces a new method for the
Server object called Server.Execute

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/iisref60/htm/ref_vbom_seromexe.asp

So you can just do:

Server.Execute strPageURL

Much better than conditional includes in ASP 2.0
(Related:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Web_Languages/ASP/Q_20249209.html )


>Anyone know of a way around this?  Just wondering.... if the answer is
>obvious blame it on the medication.

The answer to something is always obvious to *someone*, but not necessarily
to all. ;)

(Was that philosophy? Gawd, blame *my* medication then.)

Regards,

Madhu

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