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Links in old ASP pages are getting an extra slash added to them, how may I remove them?

This ASP page I am supporting has this line in it:

document.write ("<a style='color:#ffffff'id='login' href='https://Default.asp?Type=LogIn' target='_parent'>Login</a>");

However when the link is actual clicked it is changed to:

https://Default.asp/?Type=LogIn

How do I remove that extra slash?

Big Monty

the href code itself is syntactically correct, although you should have a space between the style value and the ID attribute.

i tested out the following code and it worked fine. is this similar to what you have?

<html>
	<body style="background-color:#000;">
		<script type="text/javascript">
			document.write("<a style='color:#ffffff' id='login' href='https://Default.asp?Type=LogIn' target='_parent'>Login</a>");
		</script>
	</body>
</html>

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Julian Hansen

What happens if you type this https://Default.asp?Type=LogIn directly into the browser - does the same thing happen?

If so then you need to look for something in your code that is doing a redirect.

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Big Monty

if the desired result was to get an output of

https://Default.asp?Type=LogIn

then the code, syntactically, IS correct. I know because I tested it out :)

as for the format of the url, that is indeed a different matter. There is no need to have the https:// as part of the doamin IF you are accessing a page on the same server. However, if you are going to another URL, then you need to specify a domain as DB noted.

I agree with JulianH, it's probably a redirect issue.

Scott Fell

I would still change the code a bit.

First at the top of the page, force https

<%
   If Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_PORT")=80 Then
      Dim strSecureURL
      strSecureURL = "https://"
      strSecureURL = strSecureURL & Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME")
      strSecureURL = strSecureURL & Request.ServerVariables("URL")
      Response.Redirect strSecureURL
   End If
%>

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Then change the link code to

document.write ("<a style='color:#ffffff'id='login' href='/Default.asp?Type=LogIn' target='_parent'>Login</a>");

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