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Hello,

If a visitor doesn't put anything in the "Search" text box I'd like them to
be redirected to where they came from before the search form forwarded them
to the search.asp page. Therefore I've put the following at the top of
search.asp to do this.


The problem is however, that if

Sorry, didn't finish did i?! Here we go....

Hello,

If a visitor doesn't put anything in the "Search" text box I'd like them to
be redirected to where they came from before the search form forwarded them
to the search.asp page. Therefore I've put the right stuff at the top of
search.asp to do this.


The problem is however, if the last thing they did was search for something
it will redirect them to the search page, which will redirect them to the
search page, which will redirect them to the search page etc. and the
operation times out. I tried to get over this by using a variable passed to
the search page, if it's the search page that is forwarding it on. If this
variable was set it would redirect it instead to index.asp - however, it
caused problems because I was attaching ?StopTimeout=1 to the end of the
Response.Redirect URL - causing problems if the URL to redirect to already
contained the ? character and some variables. Essentially I want a way of
working out if the referring page contains a ? or not, so I know whether I
have to do ?StopTimeout=1 or &StopTimeout=1 - know what I mean?

Regards
Greg

How are you redirecting to previous page? A hidden field on the form you
pass through?
Sounds like you need to compare this against your search path and if it's
the same, don't redirect.

Think thats what you need to do.

Stu



"Greg" <> wrote in message
news:%23N$...
> Sorry, didn't finish did i?! Here we go....
>
> Hello,
>
> If a visitor doesn't put anything in the "Search" text box I'd like them
to
> be redirected to where they came from before the search form forwarded
them
> to the search.asp page. Therefore I've put the right stuff at the top of
> search.asp to do this.
>
>
> The problem is however, if the last thing they did was search for
something
> it will redirect them to the search page, which will redirect them to the
> search page, which will redirect them to the search page etc. and the
> operation times out. I tried to get over this by using a variable passed
to
> the search page, if it's the search page that is forwarding it on. If this
> variable was set it would redirect it instead to index.asp - however, it
> caused problems because I was attaching ?StopTimeout=1 to the end of the
> Response.Redirect URL - causing problems if the URL to redirect to already
> contained the ? character and some variables. Essentially I want a way of
> working out if the referring page contains a ? or not, so I know whether I
> have to do ?StopTimeout=1 or &StopTimeout=1 - know what I mean?
>
> Regards
> Greg
>
>

"Greg" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hello,
>
> If a visitor doesn't put anything in the "Search" text box I'd like them
to
> be redirected to where they came from before the search form forwarded
them
> to the search.asp page. Therefore I've put the following at the top of
> search.asp to do this.
>
>
> The problem is however, that if
>

this problem is best solved with javascript on the client side



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What? Do you have search.htm and search.asp??

Where is the search form? Is search.asp the search form?

Jeff
"Greg" <> wrote in message
news:#N$...
> Sorry, didn't finish did i?! Here we go....
>
> Hello,
>
> If a visitor doesn't put anything in the "Search" text box I'd like them
to
> be redirected to where they came from before the search form forwarded
them
> to the search.asp page. Therefore I've put the right stuff at the top of
> search.asp to do this.
>
>
> The problem is however, if the last thing they did was search for
something
> it will redirect them to the search page, which will redirect them to the
> search page, which will redirect them to the search page etc. and the
> operation times out. I tried to get over this by using a variable passed
to
> the search page, if it's the search page that is forwarding it on. If this
> variable was set it would redirect it instead to index.asp - however, it
> caused problems because I was attaching ?StopTimeout=1 to the end of the
> Response.Redirect URL - causing problems if the URL to redirect to already
> contained the ? character and some variables. Essentially I want a way of
> working out if the referring page contains a ? or not, so I know whether I
> have to do ?StopTimeout=1 or &StopTimeout=1 - know what I mean?
>
> Regards
> Greg
>
>