Hi Guys,

Simple question for you. You could just tell me which book to look at for this.

I have a sequence of pages that I created, and it starts with the login page and so on and so forth. But currently, someone could type in the link for a page further down the chain and it would pull up.

I know how to restrict that in JSP, but how do I do so in JSP? I want my page to say, "Please log in first", and then pull up an error page. In JSP, I would put a simple if statement in the first few lines of the page to check for the session bean and if necessary, a variable that is required (such as the user ID). If it were non existant or blank, I'd throw out the error.

So the same thing in ASP - how?

Thanks a lot.

Santosh

P.S.: On a related topic, in JSP, I can put an JSP tag that'll assign a pre-fab HTML for errors. So if the DB were to spit out an error, the user would get this boilerplate HTML. How can I do that in ASP?

On Login you can assign Session variable and later check if it exists:
<%
If Session("whatever" <> "" Then
...
End If
%>

Also, there are Login & Restrict Access server behaviors in UD that can do that for you.

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Hi Guys,

Simple question for you. You could just tell me which book to look at for this.

I have a sequence of pages that I created, and it starts with the login page and so on and so forth. But currently, someone could type in the link for a page further down the chain and it would pull up.

I know how to restrict that in JSP, but how do I do so in JSP? I want my page to say, "Please log in first", and then pull up an error page. In JSP, I would put a simple if statement in the first few lines of the page to check for the session bean and if necessary, a variable that is required (such as the user ID). If it were non existant or blank, I'd throw out the error.

So the same thing in ASP - how?

Thanks a lot.

Santosh

P.S.: On a related topic, in JSP, I can put an JSP tag that'll assign a pre-fab HTML for errors. So if the DB were to spit out an error, the user would get this boilerplate HTML. How can I do that in ASP?
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