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The request function, suprising requests a value. This could be a query string, form variable, or some other value. For example if you were at the following URL.

http://www.somepage.com/home.asp?ID=23

And you had a script as such.

Request.QueryString("ID")

The call would return the value 23.

An example of where this can be used is on the M World News channel. The news is stored dynamically in a databasde so when you click on a link to the full story from the news homepage you are taken to a dynamic page which selects the story based on the ID of the story you want passed to the page as a url variable. For example the link could be:

http://www.mworld.us/news/story.asp?ID=52

Examples of use:

Request.QueryString("SomeURLVariable")
Request.Form("SomeFormElement")
Request.Cookies("SomeCookie")

The request function, surprisingly, requests a value. This could be a URL variable, form variable, or some other value. For example if you were at the url.

http://www.somepage.com/home.asp?ID=23

You would use the following code in your script.

Request.QueryString("ID")

The line would then return the value 23.

An example of where this can be used is on the M World News channel. The news is stored dynamically in a database so when you click on a link to the full story from the news homepage you are taken to a dynamic page which selects the story based on the ID of the story you want passed to the page as a url variable. For example the link could be as follows.

http://www.mworld.us/news/story.asp?ID=52

Examples of use

Request.QueryString("SomeURLVariable")
Request.Form("SomeFormElement")
Request.Cookies("SomeCookie")