Re: CGI Query Parms -- MIDRANGE-L

Bob,

One thing we have done is open up the application in it's own window.  
We give the window it's own name (TimeEntry in this case). The HTML we 
use for this is shown:

<HTML>                                                                 
<HEAD>                                                                 
  <script language="JavaScript">
    <!---                                                                  
    var sParms = "directories=no,memubar=no,toolbar=no,status=yes,";
    sParms += "scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes";

    MainWindow = Window.open("teb99e1","TimeEntry",sParms);

    location.hRef = "//intranet1/time-entry/defaultbody.htm";

     --->
   </script>                                                              
 </HEAD>                                                                
 </HTML>                                                                

In the top of each of the HTML used for the different pages we insert 
JavaScript which insures that we are in the window created for this 
application.  

<HTML>
<HEAD>
  <TITLE>Time Collection Initial Menu</TITLE>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!---
if (window.name != "TimeEntry") {
   top.close();
}
...

If the page is being requested by any window except the one created for 
this application the browser will automatically close.  This will not 
solve all of your ills but it may give you a good start.

HTH,

Rich Dotson
RT3 Consulting Services, Inc.
1-216-556-1710

>Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 14:30:52 -0700
>To: inet400-talk@inetmi.com
>From: Bob Cancilla <bobc@ricc.com>
>Subject: CGI Query Parms
>
>All,
>
>On several websites, I have seen and experienced a situation where if 
you
>enter the website at the proper entry point and then follow designated
>links and click on submit buttons on forms you will go to lower
>(subordinate) pages.  The URL shows a standard path plus a long query
>string which presumably are the parms that brought up the page.  
>
>Ok, so fine and good, my pages look the same.
>
>Now then when you bookmark these pages, the page fails with an error
>message (which I can't seem to recall at the moment).  
>
>My question is how do you create this situation?  We all have cgi 
scripts
>which contain long parm lists that we really can't hide from our users.
>How can we prevent them from bookmarking the pages and accessing the 
pages
>directly with out first visiting a parent page?
>
>Is there a neat and simple way to deal with this?
>
>Bob C.
>


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