Question

I have created a small classic asp file that I indend to call form asp.net using the below. I works, but it feels wrong somehow:

Booking.BelongsToSite = file_get_contents("http://localhost:82/test2.asp?functionName=RetBTS&param=" + User.ID);

protected string file_get_contents(string fileName)
{
    string sContents = string.Empty;
    if (fileName.ToLower().IndexOf("http:") > -1)
    { // URL 
        System.Net.WebClient wc = new System.Net.WebClient();
        byte[] response = wc.DownloadData(fileName);
        sContents = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(response);
    }
        else
        {
            // Regular Filename 
            System.IO.StreamReader sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(fileName);
            sContents = sr.ReadToEnd();
            sr.Close();
        }  
        return sContents;
    }

Can anyone see any problems with doing this?

Also is it possible to do something like the below in Classic ASP / VB script. I can’t get it to call a dynamic function name:

dim functionName, param, result
functionName = request("functionName")
param = request("param")

result = functionName(param)

Also any idea how to parse the parameters. Say if I pass the parameters in the head like “1,2,3,4”, how can I pass the into the parenthesis?

Answer 1

Try to use GetRef instead of Eval.

dim functionName, param, result
functionName = request("functionName")
param = request("param")

result = GetRef(functionName)(param)