Web Development

Consuming Web services from webclient script

16-Jan-03 4:02

Megan Forbes wrote:
But this is still probably not as interesting as what your bank do online.

My bank just added something new. Where formerly it just displayed the check numbers that had cleared, as of last week there is an icon on each line that displays an image of the actual check! No more waiting for 10 days (and paying $3) to get a paper copy... We've come a long way from the 300 baud, text-based "online banking" of the early '80s! Big Grin | :-D

As to accounting, I believe that Quickbooks sells an online accounting service, including payroll services, that users can subscribe to. That's an idea that makes me nervous, sending all my financial info over the web and entrusting strangers to keep it private. Suspicious | :suss:

But the technology is certainly capable, and quite appropriate for accounting applications.

Nobody wants to read a diary by someone who has not seen the shadow of Bubba on the prison shower wall in front of them!

Paul Watson, on BLOGS and privacy - 1/16/2003

Henrik Sternberg14-Jan-03 9:45

Henrik Sternberg

14-Jan-03 9:45

Hi!

Does anyone have a very simple web service client,
written in Java Script or VBScript?

Until now, I've only found examples with huuuuge .htc files.
Frown | :(

Thank you!

Regards,

/_henrik

Henrik Sternberg,
Cambridge Technolgy Partners, Germany
www.ctp.com/ce

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Determining the validity of a JavaScript parameter

jerry0davis14-Jan-03 4:41

jerry0davis

14-Jan-03 4:41

I have a web page that writes a text box to the screen depending on centetain paramters.

if(ok)
  printf("<input type="text" name="textbox">\n");
else
  printf("Something else");

I then wish to do something IF "textbox" is displayed. I do not then know the state of "ok" so I wish to interrogate textbox to see if it exists.

I there any way to do this in JavaScript?

TIA

I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe

Jeremy Davis
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http://www.jvf.co.uk

Re: Determining the validity of a JavaScript parameter

jerry0davis14-Jan-03 23:18

jerry0davis

14-Jan-03 23:18

Doh! Easy! Blush | :O

if(formname.textbox)
  // do something if it exists
else
  // do something if it doesn't exist

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drilling down to a section of the page

mcm13-Jan-03 23:39

mcm

13-Jan-03 23:39

i have a lot of headings in my page and i would like to have hyperlinks at the top of the page, with the ability to go directly to each heading via these. How is this possible? i apologise, i am new to html! Thank you!

Re: drilling down to a section of the page

SimonS14-Jan-03 0:14

SimonS

14-Jan-03 0:14

have a look at this[^] page for an example.

They use a combination of href="thispage.html#gohere" and <a name="gohere"> tags.

HTH

Cheers,
Simon

"The day I swan around in expensive suits is the day I hope someone puts a bullet in my head.", Chris Carter.

my svg article

User Authentication

spiridon13-Jan-03 17:35

spiridon

13-Jan-03 17:35

Hi, my company has just recently jumped onto the .Net bandwagon for our web application development. For a start we are evaluating how to approach some of the foundation modules that are to be shared across all apps, eg. common error handling, handling of user accounts, mail sending etc.

As such, would like get some advice from experts out here regarding the user authentication module. We are contemplating between using the Windows 2000 active directory as the base or developing it from scratch ie. create user, roles, etc tables in the SQL database and code the functions ourselves.

Just wondering which method is better both in terms of flexibility and scalability in the long run.

Any advice would be most appreciated.

Thanks.

troubles integrating ASP/Flash loadVariables

devvvy13-Jan-03 8:08

13-Jan-03 8:08

Problem integrating Flash-ASP:

1. Flash action script on "Login" button:

on (release) {
loadVariables ( "Login.asp", 0, "POST" );
gotoAndPlay ("LoginStatus");
}

2. action script for Label "LoginStatus"

if (bLoginStatus == 1)
{
gotoAndPlay ("LoginSuccess");
}
else {
gotoAndPlay ("LoginFailed");
}

3. Login.asp - It's just a test script, so, no password matching yet.
I just want to see the effect of changing "bLoginStatus" to 1 or 0 and that it works as intended.

<% response.write "bLoginStatus=1" %>

Yes, this is it. A very simple ASP script isnt it?

4. Observation:
The flash movie always go to the "LoginFailed" frame for some reason...
It does NOT matter if "bLoginStatus=1" in Login.asp

How can you make sure that your variables has been loaded successfully? I tried to make sure there enough time to load variable by adding a while-loop to waste time:

var i
i=0
while(i<100000)
{
i=i+1
}
if (bLoginStatus == 1)
{
gotoAndPlay ("LoginSuccess");
}
else {
gotoAndPlay ("LoginFailed");
}

norm

ColinDavies13-Jan-03 8:52

ColinDavies

13-Jan-03 8:52

I haven't done this for a while. So I hope my annswer isn't too historic.

///Assign bLoginStatus TWO frames before eg.
bLoginStatus =2;

if (bLoginStatus == 1)
{
gotoAndPlay ("LoginSuccess");
}
if(bLoginStatus == 0 {
gotoAndPlay ("LoginFailed");
}
/// If the default still exists then just play the last frame
prevframe()

Regardz
Colin J Davies

Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin

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devvvy13-Jan-03 11:02

13-Jan-03 11:02

Thanks for the feedback.

Question 1: "Assign bLoginStatus TWO frames before"

Why exactly TWO?

Question 2: No, for some reason, it did not work.

The script still seems to execute independent of what's written in the ASP file.

It's a shame that a C++ programmer get stuck on a simple thing like this... shame.

norm

ColinDavies13-Jan-03 12:22

ColinDavies

13-Jan-03 12:22

norm wrote:
Why exactly TWO?

I guess you could make it one frame before.
it just means you are assigning the bLoginStatus variable repeatedly.

norm wrote:
It's a shame that a C++ programmer get stuck on a simple thing like this... shame.

Disgusting !!

I'll send you my email and if you have a dummy FLA to test send it over. Although I only have Flash5. I'm quite sure its something real simple.
Smile | :)

One of thos things you could spend stacks of time wasted on.
Smile | :)

Regardz
Colin J Davies

Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin

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Said by Roger Wright about me.

devvvy13-Jan-03 14:51

13-Jan-03 14:51

thanks. just came back, let me try some more and see if i can do this.

else, this shame is going to remain with me for as long as i breathe Cry | :((

norm

devvvy13-Jan-03 19:21

13-Jan-03 19:21

I gave up. I already spent two days on this problem. Please guide me out of this master!

~just sent you the files, it's a little over 2MB~

norm

page/site cache

Sarvesvara (BVKS) Dasa13-Jan-03 2:53

13-Jan-03 2:53

Is this possible to inform the site not to be 'cached' in the users' PC. I am trying to calculate the site's hit rate... The cache didnt give me the exact hit rate for some reasons (my web server maintenance people told me that!!).... Please help

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Education ruined me!.

Roger Wright13-Jan-03 4:29

13-Jan-03 4:29

Using:

<%Response.Expires = -1 %>

in an asp page will prevent the page from being cached. If you're not using asp, you can expire the page deliberately by using something like:

where the time/date is any arbitrary value prior to the time of the page request. Expired pages are not cached.

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Sarvesvara (BVKS) Dasa13-Jan-03 19:37

13-Jan-03 19:37

Roger Wright wrote:
in an asp page will prevent the page from being cached

Yes.. I do use ASP page....

Can I out the
Roger Wright wrote:
<%Response.Expires = -1 %>

in the banner page or footer page .. that comes in all the pages of my site... so that I can avoid code repetation?? Will this help??

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Education ruined me!.

Roger Wright14-Jan-03 3:28

14-Jan-03 3:28

Since the Response.Expire value is part of the http header for the page I would expect that this would have to be set before anything is sent to the client. I haven't used it, just looked it up for you, but I'd try it very early in the script. I think I saw in a later post that your are using Javascript, so the other form might be a cleaner solution - just include it as part of the string(s) you output for the HEAD element.

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Sarvesvara (BVKS) Dasa14-Jan-03 19:45

14-Jan-03 19:45

Roger Wright wrote:
just include it as part of the string(s) you output for the HEAD element.

Right... u got the way that is implemented NOW!

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Education ruined me!.

Roger Wright14-Jan-03 21:09

14-Jan-03 21:09

SPS wrote:
u got the way that is implemented NOW!

Is it not working, or is it just a pain in the arse to repeat in every page? If the latter, stick it in an included page.

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Sarvesvara (BVKS) Dasa14-Jan-03 21:33