> Sorry folks, my bad. I said the PREVIOUS Page, but it could be any
> page.
>
> Sorry about that.
>
> Alexis.
>   "Alexis Faren" <alexis.fe***@mentorits.com> wrote in message
> news:uptEdI4uJHA.5684@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>   Good Easter to all.
>
>   I am using this code to raise an Alert and it works fine. What I'd
> like to do is to redirect the user to the previous page based on this
> script:
>
>   ... OTHER CODE HERE
>
>   If NOT rsAccounts.EOF Then
>       rsAccounts.close
>
>       strMSG = "HOLD ON " & UCase(session("LoggedUser")) & "!\n\n"
>       strMSG = strMsg & "You have already made your selections!\n\n"
>       strMSG = strMsg & "Email the adminsitrator to have them
> deleted!"
>
>     Response.Write("<" & "script>alert('" & strMSG & "');" & "<" &
> "/script>")
>
>   End if
>   %>
>
>   I've tried using location.href and response.redirect to no avail.
>
>   I need to do this right after Response.Write.
>
>   Could someone point me in the right direction please?
>
>   Thanks to all

"Bob Barrows" <reb01501@NOyahoo.SPAMcom> wrote in message
news:e10ppb4uJHA.1240@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Server-side code has no concept of document, or window or location, etc.
> HTTP is a stateless protocol so the previous page typically is not known.
> The only objects available to server-side code are Request, Response,
> Server, Session and Application, along with COM objects that are used via
> CreateObject.
>
> You really need to make an effort to keep this in mind. It's one of the
> biggest hurdles for novice web developers.
>
> However, if the browser bothers to populate it, the HTTP_REFERER
> servervariable will contain the url of the page that submitted the
> request:
>
> submitter = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
>
> I think all modern browsers will populate this variable (barring security
> settings that the user may have set) so this should be OK, However, an
> alternative that might be a little more robust is to add the client-side
> call to the history object to your response.write that raises the alert:
>
> Response.Write "<" & "script>alert('" & strMSG & "');" & _
> "window.history.back();" & "<" & "/script>"
> Response.End
>
> By the way, the above can be simplified by switching out of the
> server-side code block:
>
> <%
>  ... OTHER CODE HERE
>
>  If NOT rsAccounts.EOF Then
>      rsAccounts.close
>
>      strMSG = "HOLD ON " & UCase(session("LoggedUser")) & "!\n\n"
>      strMSG = strMsg & "You have already made your selections!\n\n"
>      strMSG = strMsg & "Email the adminsitrator to have them deleted!"
> %>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> alert('<%= strMSG %>');
> window.history.back();
> </script>
> <%
> Response.End
> End If
> .%>
>
> Alexis Faren wrote:
>> Sorry folks, my bad. I said the PREVIOUS Page, but it could be any
>> page.
>>
>> Sorry about that.
>>
>> Alexis.
>>   "Alexis Faren" <alexis.fe***@mentorits.com> wrote in message
>> news:uptEdI4uJHA.5684@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>   Good Easter to all.
>>
>>   I am using this code to raise an Alert and it works fine. What I'd
>> like to do is to redirect the user to the previous page based on this
>> script:
>>
>>   ... OTHER CODE HERE
>>
>>   If NOT rsAccounts.EOF Then
>>       rsAccounts.close
>>
>>       strMSG = "HOLD ON " & UCase(session("LoggedUser")) & "!\n\n"
>>       strMSG = strMsg & "You have already made your selections!\n\n"
>>       strMSG = strMsg & "Email the adminsitrator to have them
>> deleted!"
>>
>>     Response.Write("<" & "script>alert('" & strMSG & "');" & "<" &
>> "/script>")
>>
>>   End if
>>   %>
>>
>>   I've tried using location.href and response.redirect to no avail.
>>
>>   I need to do this right after Response.Write.
>>
>>   Could someone point me in the right direction please?
>>
>>   Thanks to all
>
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