ASP Classic GET request without multithreading

Question

We are talking about Classic ASP and NOT ASP.NET!

Lets start from top. We are using ISAPI_Rewrite and we would like to dynamically offer our customers to control rewriting of urls (giving them httpd.ini is not an option). We were thinking that all unknown url requests (we define this in httpd.ini) are controlled by one asp file which creates a GET request to select url (customers creates key -> value table). Now, we can make a request to another page and just print the output but we cannot make a request to our own server. As I am aware, ASP doesnt offer this.

We could write a .NET extension to control this but we are looking for other options. I know that declining .NET is a stupid thing, but its a long story...

Is there a solution to this problem in ASP?

Answer 1

Have a look at Server.Execute it allows dynamic (run time) code inclusion of other ASP files. An added bonus is that it's treated as part of the original request so SESSION, COOKIE are all available in the included file. HOWEVER variables defined in the master are not available to the included the page. You circumvent this using temporary Session variables though.

Session("variable") = "value";
Server.Execute(url);
Session.Abandon;
Response.end;

Session.Abandon will clear ALL session variables, you might want to clear them individually.

Answer 2

You can make a request to your own server but the page making the request needs to NOT have session enabled in the page declaration right at the top of the page:

<%@ EnableSessionState=False %>

Each page locks the session object and its that which stops you making a request to your own server. If you declare you are not going to use session in the calling script then it wont lock it and you can run it again using a XMLRequest and pass what you like on the querystring, post data and session cookies too so session etc. will all still exist.