Re: FN-FORUM: passing form contents to an Iframe

date posted 1st November 2003 13:37

Thanks - good idea. I hadn't though of encrypting. I have alway passed stuff
to iframes with querystrings before like you but this time I need to be
extra careful about what can be seen. I think that is what I will do.

Taa
Pam
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Kyle" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: passing form contents to an Iframe


>
> Hello Pam
>
> If you area woried about people seeing the sql, why dont you encrpyt the
> querystring on the end of the iframe src and then decrypt it in the iframe
> page. All of the ways I have used to pass info to iframe pages have
alyways
> involved querystrings or javascript onload; or you could break doen the
> variables and pass them across the querystring and build up the query
again
> in the iframe page and then pass any info back into the parent page on the
> iframe page onload using javascript back into any
> tags in the parent page.
>
> Give me a shout if you need any extra help here
>
> Best Regards
>
> John
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan Sheppard" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 1:18 PM
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: passing form contents to an Iframe
>
>
> >
> > Pam
> >
> > Then I think you need to replace the Iframe with a subroutine using CSS
> > stuff to emulate the Iframe within the same page and pass the parameters
> > within ASP so it's invisble to the client side.
> >
> > Of course this is a pain because of the inconsistant behaviour of CSS
> > across browsers, but once you've built it with enough passed parameters
I
> > guess it could become re-usable.
> >
> > Alan S
> >
> > On 01 November 2003 12:59, PAMELA WHITTAKER [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I was trying to avoid passing it as a querystring as it is sql
> > statements.
> > >
> > > Pam
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Alan Sheppard" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > > To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > > Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 12:52 PM
> > > Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: passing form contents to an Iframe
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Pam
> > > >
> > > > I think it's because at the time the Post executes the Iframe Target
> > > object doesn't exist.
> > > >
> > > > I've not tied it myself but I think you may need to construct the
> > source
> > > for the Iframe as a query string and pass the
> > > >
> > > > request("myfield") values from the containing page to it.
> > > >
> > > > i.e.
> > >
> >
src="myframepage.asp?testfield=""
> > > >
> > > > then in the myframepage.asp look for the request("testfield") and
see
> > > what's in it
> > > >
> > > > Alan S
> > > >
> > > > On 01 November 2003 12:18, PAMELA WHITTAKER
[EMAIL REMOVED]
> > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > I am trying to pass form contents from a page to an Iframe in
a
> > new
> > > > > page. I have put the form action as the name of the main page and
> the
> > > target
> > > > > for the form as the name of the Iframe but it isn't working.
> > > Request.form in
> > > > > the main page contains the form contents and request.form in the
> > Iframe
> > > page
> > > > > is spaces. What am I doing wrong? I was expecting it to be the
other
> > way
> > > > > round.
> > > > >
> > > > > Pam
> > > > >
> >
> >
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