Is it possible to send parameters from one ASP page to another in POST mode without a form? I know I can send data in GET mode simply by response.redirect("nextpage.asp?variablename=value "), but I need for the data to be sent in POST mode. Please tell me if that can be done, and how.

I dont believe so. You want to 'post' data to page not using a form, why would you want to do this?

Are you aware:
1..You can send data from page to page using hidden forms?
2..You can have as many forms on a page as you like

Given this, the question why comes to mind again. Personaly I send data from page to page using one of the following three methods - in order of preferecne:

1..Request.form
2..Request.querystring
3..Sessions

Or perhaps you are using an upload object (or similar) that doesnt allow the request object to be used, in this case I would use the session object.

Wind is your friend
Matt

Yes, Matt is right.

takabyte, Can you explain on what EXACTLY you are trying to achieve?

Cheers!

_________________________
- Vijay G
Strive for Perfection

You can do this by using XMLHTTP object.

Here is a sample code. You can get a number of them from MSDN.

Dim obj_post
Set obj_post=Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.SERVERXMLHTTP ")
Dim str_data
str_data="field1=<value of field1>&field2=<value of field2>&field3=<value of field3>"
obj_post.Open "POST", "http://www.yoursite.com/actionpage.asp",False
obj_post.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
obj_post.Send str_data
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
    Response.Write("Your web site does not appear to be up right now. Please try again later.")
    Err.Clear
Else
    Response.write("data successfully posted<br />")
Endif

Hi, Greetings to ALL

The solution from Madhukp is definetly correct but be aware of Browser Versioning and XML support on the browsers from non IE family if your site is internationallized.

Anubhav Kumar

Dear Anubhav,

This is a server side XML. So, I think, there is no browser compatibility problem. Am I incorrect ?

This may not work when the correct XML parser library is not installed. This library is free to download from microsoft site.

I did not have a chance to test it with ASP 2.0. It is working correctly with ASP 3.0 and msxml 4.0 on windows 2000.

There is also a winsock based solution. You need to download and install w3 sockets from http://www.dimac.net. A sample code is given below.

Set obj_sock=Server.CreateObject("Socket.TCP")
obj_sock.Host="www.yoursite.com:80"
str_request="POST /actionpage.asp HTTP/1.1" & vbcrlf
str_request=str_request & "Accept */*" & vbcrlf
str_request=str_request & "field1=value1&field2=value2&field3=value3" & vbcrlf
str_request=str_request & vbcrlf
obj_sock.Open()
obj_sock.SendLine str_request
obj_sock.WaitForDisConnect()
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode(obj_sock.buffer) & "</pre>"
obj_sock.Close()

obj_sock.buffer will give the output from actionpage.asp. More help is included with the component.

This was working correctly on windows NT (IIS 4.0) also.

takabyte

I am still intrigued at why you would want to over engineer passing values from one page to another. I'm sure you have a good reason however I can think of to many.

Wind is your friend
Matt

Yes Anubav, Madhu is right. This wouldn't result in any sort of error, when the right versions MSXML parsers are in place.

Cheers!

_________________________
- Vijay G
Strive for Perfection

Dear Matt,

Submitting values in this way is needed in accessing some web services. For e.g. the SMS service offered by www.sms-wap.com. Here we need to pass some values to a remote web page. We cannot submit a form to that page as the submitted values will go as the body of the request. We need to send some header request as well as some body request. I was using w3 sockets in that situation.

The XML based method is a good one to submit data without refreshing the page. This may be required in some cases.

madhukp

Thanking you, some interestingly useful information.

Wind is your friend
Matt