Query strings not detected in ASP
Thursday, December 30th, 2004 | Programming, Tech
Problem: You are requesting QueryString’s in ASP but nothing happens and the value seems to be empty.
Cause: You cannot use default documents when requesting QueryString’s. For example:
http://www.somefile.com/search/index.asp?q=hello
Would pick up that the query string “q” is set to “hello.” However:
http://www.somefile.com/search/?q=hello
Would not pick up anything despite index.asp being loaded as the default document.
Fix: Enter the full url instead of skipping out the file name.
Problem: You are requesting QueryString’s in ASP but nothing happens and the value seems to be empty.
Cause: You cannot use default documents when requesting QueryString’s. For example:
http://www.somefile.com/search/index.asp?q=hello
Would pick up that the query string “q” is set to “hello.” However:
http://www.somefile.com/search/?q=hello
Would not pick up anything despite index.asp being loaded as the default document.
Fix: Enter the full url instead of skipping out the file name.