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Philip Patrick4-Jan-03 6:29

4-Jan-03 6:29

Nope, if you want to use C++/VBA application, you should write either ISAPI dll or COM object. This is for Windows environment. I dunno about Linux/Unix hosts, but I'm sure Win32 Executable won't work there Smile | :)

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Re: javascript CGI

Paul Riley4-Jan-03 6:56

Paul Riley

4-Jan-03 6:56

Philip Patrick wrote:
Nope, if you want to use C++/VBA application, you should write either ISAPI dll or COM object. This is for Windows environment.

Is that true? I've never tried to do anything like that, but what about things like this:
http://www.cat23.com/cgi-bin/webnews.exe[^]

I know for a fact that's a Win 2000 Server, is this not simply running an executable?

Paul
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Re: javascript CGI

Philip Patrick4-Jan-03 8:43

Philip Patrick

4-Jan-03 8:43

It is a CGI application. IIS (Windows) supports it too. Sorry can't tell you much about it, you should search for explaintation on Linux/Unix sites, CGI references, etc.

Philip Patrick
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Re: javascript CGI

markkuk4-Jan-03 8:40

markkuk

4-Jan-03 8:40

Your CGI application should write a valid response to standard output (cout in C++) or the server will give an error message. The minimum working output would be a Content-type:header and a blank line.

Regular expressions... drives me mad

Philip Patrick2-Jan-03 10:06

Philip Patrick

2-Jan-03 10:06

Yeah, can't figure out how can I use it if I want so-called "non-greedy" expression, but with scripting version 5.0.
See in version 5.5 you have a special qualifier "?" that gives you what you want, but version 5.0 (Win2k) doesn't have it. In my example I need to strip all ASP code from text, making "<%[\s\S]*%>" of course won't work if I have multiple occurances of ASP script in the page, I tried "<%[^(%>)]*%>" as well, but it takes parenthesses "()" as a characters...
What can I use? Anyone can help?

Philip Patrick
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Re: Regular expressions... drives me mad

Richard Deeming3-Jan-03 3:43

Richard Deeming

3-Jan-03 3:43

You can upgrade Win2K to scripting v5.6:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/001/733/msdncompositedoc.xml[^]

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Re: Regular expressions... drives me mad

Philip Patrick3-Jan-03 4:23

Philip Patrick

3-Jan-03 4:23

I know, well, I have XP, so got the right version, but the problem that Hosting Provider doesn't have it Frown | :(

That's why I'm looking for an alternative way

Philip Patrick
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ASP scripts etc

Andy H2-Jan-03 9:30

Andy H

2-Jan-03 9:30

Please excuse my ignorance but I have had no dealings with programming on the Net. I want to create my own web site using the space provided to me by my ISP. Can someone please let me know whether it is possible to run ASP or script on web pages setup in my own web space, as said provided by my ISP?

Andy Confused | :confused:

Re: ASP scripts etc

Philip Patrick2-Jan-03 9:58

Philip Patrick

2-Jan-03 9:58

I think you should ask your provider if he gives you ability to use ASP on the site.

Philip Patrick
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Re: ASP scripts etc

DFU₂₃6-Jan-03 11:25

DFU₂₃

6-Jan-03 11:25

You could create a small text file, upload it to your "web space" and try to access it from a web browser. This should be a quick way to figure out if ASP is supported.

Here's a quick example:

1. Create a text file on your desktop and name it test.txt (ensure that you have "Hide Extenions For Known File Types" unchecked in the Folder Options : View Tab ... this way you can easily rename the file name to a .asp later)

2. In the file enter the following:

<%
    Response.Write("ASP is supported!")
%>

3. Save the file. Then rename it to "test.asp" (do this however is simplest for you. A quick an simple way is to select the object on your desktop and press F2, then delete the "txt" and enter "asp" ... then press "Enter")

4. Copy this file to your web space (via FTP or whatever resource they give you)

5. Open a web browser and navigate to the newly uploaded file (this could be anything but should be in the form of http://myISP.com/mywebsite/test.asp)

6. If you only see the text:

ASP is supported!

Then it appears that ASP is supported and you can use this technology on your website. However, if you see everything that you entered into the file ... things like the "<%" and the "Response.Write" then your script did not run and ASP is not currently supported.

Hope this helps!

Wally Atkins

Converting HTML to WML

dgriffin31-Dec-02 9:00

dgriffin

31-Dec-02 9:00

My boss asked me to do some research on converting a web site so it is available on mobile devices. The site is all static html pages that link back and forth to each other. I read up on some WML tutorials in w3schools and the language seems easy enough. There were lots of articles on using the Mobile Internet Toolkit from Microsoft. We are a Microsoft shop. The only problem is we are not a .Net shop and Mobile Internet Toolkit is for .Net.

Any suggestion on how to start this converion without going to .Net and Mobile Internet Toolkit?

Re: Converting HTML to WML

Stephane Rodriguez.2-Jan-03 5:05

Stephane Rodriguez.

2-Jan-03 5:05

HTML --> WML is a very bad thought.

You should have an ASP (PHP, Perl,...) page that produces HTML when you are targeting a desktop PC, and WML for mobiles.

Re: Converting HTML to WML

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2-Jan-03 11:19

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User logon NTLM - yes I am a newbie!

alias3931-Dec-02 8:04

alias39

31-Dec-02 8:04

I have a basic calendar scheduling system on our intranet site. It allows users to add items to an access database showing if they are sick, on vacation, etc.

As it stands now anyone can edit/delete any events.

How do I make it so that the events can only be edited/deleted by the original author or the administrator?

Ideally I would like users to automatically logon through windows ntlm auth. and have them be able to edit their events without being bothered for a login/password.

We are on a w2k network / and use access as the DB for now.

Thanks for any help,

Mike

Re: User logon NTLM - yes I am a newbie!

DFU₂₃6-Jan-03 11:35

DFU₂₃

6-Jan-03 11:35

Within IIS - open the properties of your application and go to the directory security tab. Click the "Edit..." button for Anonymous Access and Authentication Control. Ensure that only Integrated Windows Authentication is checked.

This authenticates the users coming to this site using the users NT Logon.

In an ASP page try the following:

Response.Write Request.ServerVariables("LOGON_USER")

This gets you the domain\username of whoever accessed the page. This way you can strip out only the username (or keep the whole thing) to store in the DB along with the event.

No second logon ... no sweat. Smile | :)

Is there any easy way to transfer objects between javascript and server ?

zhuzhenhuan30-Dec-02 16:19

zhuzhenhuan

30-Dec-02 16:19

Is there any easy way to transfer objects between javascript and server ?

Re: Is there any easy way to transfer objects between javascript and server ?

alex.barylski30-Dec-02 21:39

alex.barylski

30-Dec-02 21:39

What do you mean transfer objects? You can send data with GET or POST or cookies I guess.

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Re: Is there any easy way to transfer objects between javascript and server ?

zhuzhenhuan31-Dec-02 1:23

zhuzhenhuan

31-Dec-02 1:23

I mean how to transfer an object but not just string to the server.
for example:

function Cat() {
this.age=5;
this.weight=6;
}

var oCat=new Cat();

how I can post "oCat" to server?

Re: Is there any easy way to transfer objects between javascript and server ?

Paul Watson31-Dec-02 5:15

Paul Watson

31-Dec-02 5:15

zhuzhenhuan wrote:
how I can post "oCat" to server?

You could create a JavaScript serialiser and serialise the object into XML and store it in a hidden input field on the page, then post that to the server. Then on the other side you could de-serialise it. That would be seriously cool IYAM.

Otherwise you must break the object up into it's properties and store them in seperate input fields or send them in the querystring.

AFAIK you can only send text data with a post.

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Re: Is there any easy way to transfer objects between javascript and server ?

Stephane Rodriguez.2-Jan-03 5:03

Stephane Rodriguez.

2-Jan-03 5:03

That's what cookies are for. document.cookie=... R/W access.

javascript event handling problem

Shaun Wilde30-Dec-02 13:23

Shaun Wilde

30-Dec-02 13:23

hi all

I wish to handle a javascript event using a funtion that has parameters eg

funtion Init(arq)
{
myobj.onkeydown = dofunc(arq); // where arq is an array
myobj.onkeyup = dofunc(arq); // where arq is an array
myobj.onclick = dofunc(arq); // where arq is an array
}

however it doesn't want to behave when I want to use the parameters

I suspect I have to use the 'eval' function (something I think I read a long long time age) but I can't get it to work.

thanks

Re: javascript event handling problem

Richard Deeming2-Jan-03 2:46

Richard Deeming

2-Jan-03 2:46

Event handlers in the DHTML Object Model do not receive parameters directly. You will need to store the parameter in a page-level variable, or as an expando property of the object. For example:

function Init(obj, arq)
{
    obj.arq = arq;
    obj.onkeydown = dofunc;
    obj.onkeyup = dofunc;
    obj.onclick = dofunc;
}
 
function dofunc()
{
    var obj = event.srcElement;
    var arq = obj.arq;
    // Do stuff here...
}

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Re: javascript event handling problem

Shaun Wilde2-Jan-03 3:34

Shaun Wilde

2-Jan-03 3:34

thankx - that is what I ended up doing in the end except I had to use a page variable as sometimes srcElement came back as null - dunno why - javascript confuses me most of the time.

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Re: javascript event handling problem

Ben Burnett5-Jan-03 13:34

Ben Burnett

5-Jan-03 13:34

You could use the following function to bind the argument 'arq' to the function 'dofunc'.

/*! Returns a function which has it's argument bound a given value
	\param f predicate
	\param bound_argument value to bind to the predicate's argument
*/
function bind ( f, bound_argument ) {	
	function fake () {		
		return ( f ( bound_argument ) );		
	}		
	return ( fake );	
} // end function bind ()

It works by creating a new function that does not take any paramaters itself. The resulting code might look something like the following.

funtion Init ( arq ) {
    myobj.onkeydown = bind ( dofunc, arq );
    myobj.onkeyup   = bind ( dofunc, arq );
    myobj.onclick   = bind ( dofunc, arq );
}

cheers,
-B

Re: javascript event handling problem

Shaun Wilde6-Jan-03 0:22

Shaun Wilde

6-Jan-03 0:22

thankx - that looks a better solution for what I need to do

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