Re: CGI Query Parms -- MIDRANGE-L

Rich,

Thanks for the info, this is an excellent and rather creative idea.
It would be nice if the server would provide a sort of built in cookie that
could be set and tested.

Thanks,

Bob C.


At 07:56 AM 8/26/97 PDT, Rich Dotson wrote:
>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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