Making 'virtual' links in a Web Browser window.

[aidan]

I have a web browser form and I want to do the following.

1) Put a virtual page into the window. I haven't done this step yet but it's covered in Sam Huggill's 'Insert HTML into an active web page in the Webbrowser control' tip. (This will display search results from a database). I only have the free version of IIS so I can't use ASP. (As far as I know).

2) The page will have links on it, which I want to link to more virtual pages when the user clicks them, but I don't know how to do this.

When someone clicks an Anchor tag on the HTML page in the WebBrowser window, I want it to trigger an event on the WebBrowser's form, so a new page can be generated. Is it possible to do this, possibly by some script on the page which would be triggered by the onclick property.

Any ideas guys?

[Danial]

Originally posted by aidan
I only have the free version of IIS so I can't use ASP. (As far as I know).

Do you mean PWS, yes you can run ASP on PWS.

[aidan]

The server is Win2000, which as far as I know runs IIS not PWS. PWS is for NT, 95 & 98.

I just don't really want to use an ASP solution, because I'd have to do a lot in terms of setting up the ODBC source, installing the Web Server, learning how to do .asp templates etc. etc.

[punkpie_uk]

PWS is for Win9X. NT4 uses ISS, it comes with the optional pack.

If you have ISS installed you can use ASP.
Try something like this : -

1/ Use the URL to pass a parameter eg http://domain.com/pagename.asp?list0 (everything after the ? is the paramter)

2/ Use request.servervariables("QUERY_STRING") on the page to find out what the parameter is. In the example it shoudl return list0

3/ Use an if statement to find out what to display

if request.servervariables("QUERY_STRING")="list0" then
'display list 0
response.write "<a href=" & chr(34) & "http://domain.com/anewlink" & chr(34) & ">A New Link</a><br>" & vbcrlf
end if
if request.servervariables("QUERY_STRING")="list1" then
'display list 1
end if
if request.servervariables("QUERY_STRING")="list2" then
'display list 2
end if

4/ Set up some anchor tags to select what to display

<a href="pagename.asp?list0">Load Page 0</a>
<a href="pagename.asp?list1">Load Page 1</a>
<a href="pagename.asp?list2">Load Page 2</a>

All these do is call the page again with a different parameter.