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May 08.2003

Hi everyone!

I haven’t posted here before, but I am very much in need of help getting a dropdown form to send me to various links located in the same folder on a website.
On a set of public pages I can get it doing exactly what it should. The problem is that this is a password protected member area (which I did not design). It requires an initial login from a given page to access the protected area (uses perl I think), and seems only to allow navigation around the protected pages via hard coded links.
I have tried about 3 versions of the dropdown scripts available, and each time I try to navigate using the dropdown form I get sent straight back to the login page every time.

Is is possible that the use of the javascript is somehow causing the server to not recognize that the http request for the new page has not originated from within the protected area? It seems so to me.

Can I do anything with the code on the page that would get around this or tell the server that the request is coming from a legitimate page?

I guess that problem isn’t really the dropdown, but the function that requests the new page. The “inheritance” is somehow being lost I think…

There are no frames on the site.

Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated.
I can post the code if it’s needed.

Please post here or email me.

JT
jts411(at)bigpond.com

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@khalidali63May 08.2003 — [i]Originally posted by spano [/i]

[B]Hi everyone!



Is is possible that the use of the javascript is somehow causing the server to not recognize that the http request for the new page has not originated from within the protected area?



JT

jts411(at)bigpond.com [/B][/QUOTE]

No javascript can not make changes to the HTTP request.
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@spanoauthorMay 08.2003 — Thanks Khalid for your super-quick reply!

Are you saying that there should be no difference between a hard coded text link and a javascript-created link?

If that is true then can you (or anyone else reading this) think of why it works fine in the public area and not in the members' area? I'm totally stumped and am prepared to try anything to get it working.

Regards,

JT
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