Question

Help, I need to create a generic action page that accepts post data from an html form. The server is running asp.net 2 on windows 2003 iis6.

I don’t want the page to post back to itself, but that redirect to another page. How do I create the page that accepts the data from another page? Not really sure where to start here

Thanks

Answer 1

This is what the HttpContext.Request object is for. It is there to handlehold posted variables:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.httpcontext.request(v=VS.80).aspx

Edit: As an example

<form method="POST" action="someotherpage.aspx">
    <!-- form stuff here -->
    <input type="hidden" name="username" value="steve" />
    <input type="submit" />
</form>

Then in someotherpage.aspx you would use the HttpContext.Request object to grab the variables:

string username;

if(HttpContext.Request["username"] != null)
    username = HttpContext.Request["username"];