I am designing a winforms based testing app (which is based upon WatiN). I specify a page to test and the value to insert into a textbox, and then click the corresponding button.
Is it possible to add a query string to the request I make (when clicking button) and then get the URL of the next page? Based on this, I need to screen scrape it.
Not sure about Watin syntax, but in Watir (Ruby version) you can get URL of the page displayed in browser with
browser.url
Or do you need to get URL of the next page before you open it?
Based on your comment to AmitK, Ċ½eljko's answer is right.
In WatiN (and C#), the syntax is:
Console.WriteLine("The current page is:" + ie.Url.ToString());
(just in case: 'ie' is the browser reference, use whatever object you use to enter text and click buttons)
What exactly do you mean by "next page" ? Does the form when submitted redirect to another page? If so, you will receive a HTTP 302/303 status code with the URL of the next page.
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i have two asp page,first one is home and second one is test. In home page user can select the type of test they want to take up, and after pressing start button a new window is open for taking the test. What i want to achieve is , after completing the test i want to close the test window and redirect to another page, and this redirect should hit the previously opened home window.
You don't clarify that you have popup window or blank window i am aspecting for the popup
In submit click button press
String x = "<script type='text/javascript'>window.opener.location.href='**Your new url of new page after completing test**';self.close();</script>";
ScriptManager.RegisterClientScriptBlock(this.Page,this.Page.GetType(), "script", x,false);
From self close you will be able to close current window and by window.opener.location.href you will able to redirect to new url
I hope this will help you
regards....:)
Yes you can do these 2 ways:
Window.Open() /.showmodalDialog() and keep parent and child open as well, or
On the home page click on your start button. Use code Response.Redirect("~/Test.aspx"); assuming it resides with Home.aspx. Take your test using ASp.Net wizard control or hiddens divs what ever suits you easy. Manipulate data on test page , save and get result to and from database using SqlConnection and SqlCommand assuming you have Sql Server as backend. Hold the table or any value in either cache or Session and throw it on your home page. Do whatever you want.
This will be not possible. What you can do is to redirect the user to the home page after completing the test, but this will be in the same windows.
If I have a button on my ASP.NET page which will take you to another page but that page will do something and then will send user back using
Uri uu= Request.UrlReferrer;
if (uu!= null)
Response.Redirect(uu.ToString());
Now Which page event can I use so that when other pages displays I can display a message box.
In short I am running my custom code in a "aspx" page where user is directed on button click, and then after custom code I am sending user back to old page, but it happens so quickly that user doesn't realize that he went on another page, now I want to display a message box after redirect on same page user started from, what to do :S !
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Sorry guys but I can't make changes to ASP page where button is at all
:(
I'm a bit unsure about how the Request.UrlReferrer gets set. I think it's a browser implementation detail. So I wouldn't trust on that.
I would go for something like
A.aspx -> Redirects to -> B.aspx
B.aspx -> Redirects to -> B.aspx?message=1
And check if message=1 is set.
But if you want to use the Request.UrlReferrer it should be accessible on Page_Load
If you use it this way, it'll never appear to the client.
Maybe try redirecting back using javascript with a delay so user can be informed
The best thing to do it's add a flag to the redirected page so you can show something special when the flag is turned on
Uri uu= Request.UrlReferrer;
if (uu!= null)
Response.Redirect(uu.ToString() + "?Message=DataHasChanged");
and then in the ASP page
<% if (Request.QueryString["Message"] == "DataHasChanged") { %>
<div class="alert">The data has changed. Please review it or whatever</div>
<% } %>
I have a videoWall and a videoWallDetail page. Currently, this is what I have on the videoWallDetail page:
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(Request["video_id"])) Response.Redirect("videoWall.aspx");
Users should not enter the detail page this way, but if they know the video id, some might go straight to the detail page by typing it into the url, so this will redirect users back to the videoWall page if they enter a video id in the address bar that is not valid. My question is how do I redirect back to the videoWall page regardless. If a user does not click on a link to get to the detail page of a particular video, they get sent back no matter if they enter a valid id into the address bar.
Thanks in advance!
You could add a Session on the videoWall.aspx page to verify they've come from that page:
videoWall.aspx
Session["fromVideoWall"] = true;
Response.Redirect("videoWallDetail.aspx?video_id=" + videoId.ToString());
videoWallDetail.aspx
if (Session["fromVideoWall"] != null && String.IsNullOrEmpty(Request["video_id"])) Response.Redirect("videoWall.aspx");
Session["fromVideoWall"] = null; //Setting the value back to null ensures the next access must have come from VideoWall.aspx too
1 You can use PostBackUrl method
And in the target page access to PreviousPage and get the data
Link : http://asp-net-example.blogspot.fr/2008/10/postbackurl-example-how-to-submit-page.html
2 You can also rewrite your url with HttpModule
Link : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972974.aspx
If i'm not allowed to just enter a known ID into the query string of the videoWallDetail page, then you shouldn't expose that as a query string param. What if I want to bookmark the page, or email someone a URL for them to go straight to? Are those disallowed?
If so, then you need to remove that querystring param. The URL bar should be a perfectly legal way for users to get around. If they can enter a URL to get to a page they shouldn't without a 400 or 500 error, then its YOUR fault as the developer.
Switch over to using a session variable or a form post to confirm they are coming from the proper place if they truly shouldn't be on Page B without having just come from Page A.
I need help with connecting to a certain website via my username & password.
With WebClient I can fill the username field and the password field, but how do I invoke the click method of the button?
And How can I fill a specific textBox that doesn't have an ID?
I tried doing this with webBrowser, but every time I navigate I have to use a new function every time, which makes the work much harder.
Thanks.
What you're trying to do is wrong. If you want to Post some data to a web address (a URL), simply create a web form (a simple HTML form), fill it, and then send it. Just consider these notes:
Your HTML's form action should be the exact URL of the form you're imitating.
Your input controls should have the same name attribute value.
For more information, see Form Spoofing
Look at the web browser control and see if you can use that inside your windows form to perform the task that you are doing. Once you are satisfied with the results, you can make the web browser control invisible, and it'll work just like you do with web response and request calls.
View the source code and find the id of the button (say "Login").
Then use:
HtmlElement elem = webBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("Login");
if (elem != null)
elem.InvokeMember("click");
I have a page that requires the user to go through several steps, however step is performed on the same ASPX page with different panels being displayed.
However this is a requirement that each step has a different URL, this could be a simple as a query string parameter, for example:
Step 1:
/member/signup.aspx?step=1
Step 2:
/member/signup.aspx?step=2
Step 3:
/member/signup.aspx?step=3
However I don't want to have to redirect the user to the new URL each time they continue to the next step, this would involve a lot of redirecting and also a switch statement on the page load to work out which step the user is on.
It would be better if I could alter the URL that is displayed to the user when the original request is sent back to the user, i.e. the user click "next" on step 1 the page then does some processing and then alters response so that the user then sees the step 2 URL but without any redirection.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Could you convert your Panels into steps in a Wizard control?
It would be a little more complicated than you probably want, but you could achieve this effect with the PostBackUrl property of the submitting button. I'm assuming each panel has its own "submit" button, and they could all use this property to "advance" the process. The drawback is that in order to get to submitted controls, you'd need to use the Page.PreviousPage property in order to access any controls and their values.
You could programmatically alter the PostbackUrl property of your 'Next' button on each Page_Load, based on the query string value. This is a bit strange though, as you wouldn't be able to use a standard event handler for the button click, and you'd have to use the PreviousPage property of the Page to get the data from the previous tab.
I'd say challenge this requirement. Why would anyone need to jump into the middle step? If it's a case of displaying the progress to the user, do this on the page, not in the URL.
You require that each step has different URL, than Response.Redirect is the only option. As you want to avoid the redirection, you can use IFrame but IFrame URL is not visible to user on his browser. I think redirect option is ugly(for both SERVER and CLIENT) as in this case, you first post on the page and than get that page. The best solution is POST BACK with some varible tracking step.
You could implement a form or url rewriting so that your urls end up being
/member/signup/step1/
/member/signup/step2/
/member/signup/step3/
To do this use the
HttpContext.RewritePath method which means you can rewrite /member/signup/step1/ to /member/signup.aspx?step=1 for example. See an example here.
I would also use the PRG (post request get) pattern so that each next link posts the form data of that step to the session then redirects the user top the correct next url. this will ensure that the user can navigate back and forth through the steps safely and also the url will remain intact in all your posts.
Check out server.transfer