[Dynapi-Dev] ioelmsrv.vbscript.asp

[Leo P. <Leo...@ga...>]

Hi Raymond,

right now i am going through your asp - ioelmsrv code and doing a re-write
for our project
just a remark on your comment in the function below:

'* Get Request - returns a value from either the Request.QueryString or
Request.Form Object *
Function wsGetRequest(ByVal name)
	'#	Get requested data sent by client via GET or POST
	'#	Note: ASP Request Object returned a very strange object type.
	'#	This is my only workaround
	Dim vl, mode

	mode=wsGetRequestMethod()
	If (mode="post") Then vl=("" & Request.Form(name))
	If (Not IsValid(vl)) Then vl=("" & Request.QueryString(name))
	wsGetRequest = vl
End Function

ANY Request returns a String (If present) or NULL (if not present)
In our Team we'll ALWAYS use

IF(LEN(TRIM(REQUEST(SOMETHING)) > 0

instead of the quirky '"" &'  thing.

--> the TRIM Converts the NULL Value to an EMPTY String, AND LEN returns 0
if no value was passed

One Final Note: You don't have to distinguish between Request.Form and
Request.Querystring - a simple Request("something") looks through all server
collections(.form, .querystring, .servervariables) and returns the first
found match.

if you'd want me to send in the finished code, i'll be more than happy to.

Leo