Re: 2 Qs re JS scripting

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Randy Webb wrote:
> Bob Barrows [MVP] said the following on 8/12/2005 6:02 PM:
>> Adrian wrote:
>>
>>> 1. I have an HTML file on a local harddisk and I want to open it
>>> from another local .js file passing it a string for it to read and
>>> display e.g. test.html?this_is/atest so how do I do all of that?!
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>>
>> You need ASP in order to use a querystring,

This statement is admittedly in error. My head's in the ASP world, so when I
think of displaying something, I tend to think of "response.write"

>> which means you need a
>> web server. You cannot use a querystring in a .htm file, especially
>> one opened from a hard drive without using a web server.
>
> Excuse me? JScript is very well capable of handling a queryString.
>
> var myLoc = document.location.href;
> var queryString = myLoc.split('?');
> if (queryString[1]){alert(queryString[1])}
> else{alert('NO Query String present')}
>
> Why do you need a web server?
>

Could you explain how to open an html file from a hard drive, passing a
dynamic querystring to it without a web server?

Bob Barrows
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