Form data to ASP file - HTML Forums

rollingdice · 10-27-2009, 01:19 PM

I cannot get my form to write to my asp file for the life of me.

My website is rollingdice.byethost32.com you'll notice a login form with two simple txt fields. I have the action set to the name of the asp file ("logins.asp").

The asp file looks like this

Code:

<html>
<body>
<%
'declarations
Dim username, password
'initiate declarations
username=Request.Form("username")
password=Request.Form("password")
'print input
Response.Write("Username: " & Request.Form("username") & "<br />")
Response.Write("Password: " & Request.Form("password") & "<br />")
%>
</body>
</html>

If someone could please tell me what i'm doing wrong it would be much appreciated

afterburn · 10-28-2009, 08:42 AM

the issue is your path of the form action. "./Logins.asp" is not a valid path "../" would force the browser to post the data up one directory to the file Logins.asp.

rollingdice · 10-28-2009, 04:01 PM

The only reason i had the action set like that is because i've tried it other ways such as a relative link without any / and just having it say action="Logins.asp" and i've tried using an absolute link like this action="http://www.rollingdice.byethost32.com/Logins.asp. Both result in the page being redirected to a blank page that says:

Code:

<% 'declarations dim username, password 'initiate declarations username=Request.Form("username") password=Request.Form("password") 'print input Response.Write("Username: " & username & "
") Response.Write("Password: " & password & "
") %> You have typed the user name <%=Request.Form("userName")%> and the password <%=Request.Form("password")%>.

afterburn · 10-28-2009, 04:22 PM

did you view the source after it was submitted? it does not look like you are using a windows server as the ASP is not being run; but instead being sent to the client.

rollingdice · 10-28-2009, 08:17 PM

In my last post the code shown was directly from the page, not the source. And does that mean that the server i'm using doesn't support asp? It's a free host.... Also, if the server doesn't support asp is there any alternative to accomplishing this!?

afterburn · 10-29-2009, 02:10 PM

I looked at the page; the server does not. You can try PHP or ask your service provider ...

longcall911 · 11-14-2009, 05:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rollingdice

In my last post the code shown was directly from the page, not the source. And does that mean that the server i'm using doesn't support asp? It's a free host.... Also, if the server doesn't support asp is there any alternative to accomplishing this!?

If it is a free host, chances are it's a Linux machine. You need a Windows machine (IIS) to run ASP / VBscript. There are some good ones that are cheap, but I don't know of any free Windows web hosts.

/*tom*/

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