Per page 284 in Beginning ASP 3.0, Server.Transfer and Server.Execute may use absolute page references.

However, when an absoulute reference is attempted, this error is returned:

"Invalid URL form or fully-qualified absolute URL was used.
Use relative URLs."

Microsoft KB articel #247420 (http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;247420) lists the following status for this:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in IIS 5.0 online documentation.

This behavior is by design.

 Are you using querystring? Though the error shows something different, according to that article, the problem was with querystrings.

Brian

Brian,

This is the exact line from my source (note the use of a test file):

Server.Execute "http://192.168.1.16/owners/Data/xyz.htm"

This is one of three different ways I've tried it.

Allan

Is that a page within your application, if so, why the full link, and if not, it may be because it is an external link, but I am unsure.

Brian

Beginning ASP 3.0 indicates that the destination can be on a different site (so, a full URL definition is needed).

I need for my application to display periodically updated information from a different computer on the LAN. Either I pull from the other computer, or, I have to have my web server update that info from the other machine and place the results so I can pull a relative link*.

The Server.Execute [absolute reference] seemed a very quick and easy way to do this.

My Server.Execute doesn’t have a query string; also, it works for relative references (*when I test it against the same page brought into the web server).

Thanks,

Allan

This sounds just plain wrong to me. server.execute is much more limited than this - I just don't see how you would be able to execute an asp page on another server. In fact I doubt if you can even server.execute another asp page in a different 'application' on the same server. The reason I say this is beacuse all the server collections, including the Application, Session etc, are supposed to be available to the Execute'd page - surely that's going to cause all sorts of conflicts if the 2 pages are in different applications, let alone on different servers.

Just my 2c

rgds
Phil

Server.execute method uses only Relative path, and only execute the page if this file is on the same server and same application (virtual directory).

Cheers :)

vinod

This is where I started; perhaps it's the documentation. In any case, I haven't had success with an absolute reference:

In chapter 7, on page 284 of Wrox’s Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0, Server.Execute & Server.Transfer are briefly described, then this paragraph appears:

“In both cases. The value of DestinationPage could be a string value, or hold a valid URL that the browser would then be told to retrieve. The destination page should be formatted just like a hyperlink would. If the URL is on the same site, then a relative reference can be used. If it is on a different site, then you need to include a full http:// reference.”

Thanks for all of the help!

To do this, I would try using MSXML and the response.text to grab your page on the other box. I use this all the time.

set myXML = CreateObject ("MSXML2.serverXMLHTTP.4.0")
    myXML.open "GET","http://mysite.asp", false
    myXML.send ()
    theStr = theStr & "<style>"
    theStr = theStr & myXML.responsetext
    theStr = theStr & "</style>"


Terrill

Ignor the <style> lines... i coppied the code over from a page in which I was using this to get a style sheet.

Terrill