serve new home page based on variable or no variable

[DanInMa]

OK, i havent worked with asp and cookies together before. I have a new page design and an old one. the html is contained in 2 subs, SUB OLDPAGE and SUB NEWPAGE.

This is what Im trying to do

- user goes to www.mysite.com/ and gets OLDPAGE by default


- user goes to www.mysite.come/?nsmc=new . I want to then set a cookie for 30 days storing the cookie "nsmc" as equaling "new" , then user gets NEWPAGE

- user goes to www.mysite.com/ ( nsmc cookie shoudl now equal new) and serves NEWPAGE


- user goes to www.mysite.com/?nsmc=old - then set cookie nsmc to "old and serve OLDPAGE

on subsequent visits to www.mysite.com user will again get OLDPAGE




ok, so this is what I have

<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<%

IF Request.Querystring("nsmc") = "new" THEN
Response.Cookies("nsmc")= "new"
ELSEIF  Request.Querystring("nsmc") = "old" THEN
Response.Cookies("nsmc")= "old"
END IF
Response.Cookies("nsmc").Expires = Date() + 30
IF Request.Cookies("nsmc") = "new" THEN
NEWPAGE
ELSE
OLDPAGE
END IF

SUB NEWPAGE
 %>
<p> this is my new page design</p>

<% 
END SUB 
SUB OLDPAGE
%>

<p>this is my old page<p>

<% END SUB %>

[DanInMa]

ahh nevermind I figured it out. My code was "working" but to do it the way i want I have to prevent client side page caching so I put this at the top of the pages and it works as i wanted now

<% 
    pStr = "private, no-cache, must-revalidate" 
    Response.ExpiresAbsolute = #2000-01-01# 
    Response.AddHeader "pragma", "no-cache" 
    Response.AddHeader "cache-control", pStr 
%>

[Old Pedant]

Ummm...no, I don't think that will work.

You can't use Request.Cookies to get the cookie you JUST SET using Response.Cookies.

Request.Cookies *ONLY* shows you the cookies that were present at the time the user's HTTP request was made.

So if the cookies were set to "old" and the query string said "new", then Request.Cookies would still be "old" and the query string would NOT take effect until the next time the user got to the page.

Try this:

IF Request.Querystring("nsmc") = "new" THEN
     Response.Cookies("nsmc")= "new"
     Response.Cookies("nsmc").Expires = Date() + 30
     NEWPAGE
ELSEIF  Request.Querystring("nsmc") = "old" THEN
    Response.Cookies("nsmc")= "old"
    Response.Cookies("nsmc").Expires = Date() + 30
    OLDPAGE
ELSEIF Request.Cookies("nsmc") = "new" THEN
    NEWPAGE
ELSE
    OLDPAGE
END IF

[DanInMa]

Ahh I see. Ill have to give that a shot. I ended up using server.transfer, but I wanted to figure out how to do it the way I wanted to do it

Ill give is a shot on Monday, no wait Tuesday. ( Monday is Sharepoint 2007 to 2010 migration yikes!)