what's with response.redirect?

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Nov 3rd, 2000, 02:48 PM

okay. i have this code and it's giving me this error, and the line that's causing this error is where i type

Code:

response.redirect "redir.asp"

the error message is:

Quote:

Response object error 'ASP 0156 : 80004005'

Header Error

/redirect.asp, line 12

The HTTP headers are already written to the client browser. Any HTTP header modifications must be made before writing page
content.

and this is the source code:

Code:

<%@ Language=VBScript%>  <html> <head> <title>trying redirect</title> </head> <body> <% Dim varConfirm varConfirm = Request.Form("rConfirm") 'no problem here If varConfirm="no" Then Response.redirect "redir.asp" else ' code if varConfirm="yes" end if %> </body> </html>
Nov 3rd, 2000, 03:29 PM
monte96

You can't use response.redirect after the <HTML> tag has been written to the browser.

If you put it before the HTML tag, it will work fine.
Nov 3rd, 2000, 03:39 PM

thanks, dude

i knew it had to be something simple. sorry. just self-studying with asp, see. and the book i'm using as reference put response.redirect in between the <html> tags.
Nov 4th, 2000, 07:07 PM

Actually it has to do with when the http header is sent back to the requesting client(like the error message stated) and not with the "<html>" tag. The following works perfectly because the Response.Buffer = True statement...

Code:

<% Option Explicit Response.Buffer = True %> <html> <body background="/images/bground.gif" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" marginheight="0" topmargin="0"> test </body> </html> <% Response.Redirect "http://msdn.microsoft.com/" %>
Nov 5th, 2000, 12:29 AM
monte96

That's true.. In his case I simply assumed he had not set the html stream to buffer so it was outputting as it was going along..