Form Post to Non-ASP.NET Page

[Jonathan Wood]

I raised this issue before and never got anywhere. Thought I'd try again to
see if anyone ever resolved this.

I want to do a FORM POST to a non-ASP.NET page on another site. I can do
this with a regular HTML <form> tag. However, this doesn't work well with
ASP.NET. ASP.NET pages must have the page content within a <form> tag in
order to use ASP.NET controls and handle their events. And, since the HTML
specification does not support nested <form> tags, this means I cannot add
another HTML <form> tag to perform a non-ASP.NET form post.

Ideally, it seems like I should be able to write a normal ASP.NET button
event handler, and have the handler emulate a form post (and redirection).

Unfortunately, I cannot get this to work. This would be a cool trick as
searching the Web found lots of people with the same problem but no
solutions.

Thanks!

 

[Alexey Smirnov]

I raised this issue before and never got anywhere. Thought I'd try again to
see if anyone ever resolved this.

I want to do a FORM POST to a non-ASP.NET page on another site. I can do
this with a regular HTML <form> tag. However, this doesn't work well with
ASP.NET. ASP.NET pages must have the page content within a <form> tag in
order to use ASP.NET controls and handle their events. And, since the HTML
specification does not support nested <form> tags, this means I cannot add
another HTML <form> tag to perform a non-ASP.NET form post.

Ideally, it seems like I should be able to write a normal ASP.NET button
event handler, and have the handler emulate a form post (and redirection).

Unfortunately, I cannot get this to work. This would be a cool trick as
searching the Web found lots of people with the same problem but no
solutions.

Thanks!

Look for HTTP Post
http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/19/95431.aspx
http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/dotnetWebRequest/dotnetWebRequest.htm

 

[Scott Roberts]

I want to do a FORM POST to a non-ASP.NET page on another site. I can do
this with a regular HTML <form> tag. However, this doesn't work well with
ASP.NET.

Sure it does, it's just not as obvious as one would hope. To post a ASP.NET
form to a different URL, use the PostBackUrl property on the submit button.

 

[Jonathan Wood]

That only works when posting to ASP.NET pages on the same server. As
described, I want to post to a non-ASP.NET page on another server.
PostBackUrl is of no value here.

 

[Jonathan Wood]

Alexey,

Look for HTTP Post
http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/19/95431.aspx
http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/dotnetWebRequest/dotnetWebRequest.htm

Thanks, but while this apparently seems like an easy problem at first
glance, neither of these solutions will forward to the page being posted to
per my description.

 

[Alexey Smirnov]

Alexey,







Thanks, but while this apparently seems like an easy problem at first
glance, neither of these solutions will forward to the page being posted to
per my description.

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you can also do a simple redirect to the target page adding all fields
in the url

e.g. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=asp

stays for

<input type=hidden name=hl value="en">
<input type=text name=q value="asp">

or try to use a client-side javascript to change the ASP.NET form
action attribute