DevGuru Active Server Pages Request Object



			OBJECT: Request The Request object provides access to all of the information that is passed in a request from the browser to the server. This information is stored among five types of Request collections. A collection is similar to a data structure or array. Individual items in the collection are accessed via a unique key assigned to that item. All variables can be accessed directly by calling Request(variable) without the collection name. In this case, the Web server searches the collections in the following order: QueryString, Form, Cookies, ClientCertificate, then ServerVariables. PROPERTY TotalBytes Property The TotalBytes property specifies the total number of bytes sent in the body of the HTTP request. COLLECTION PROPERTIES ClientCertificate Collection Property The ClientCertificate collection property contains the values of the client certification fields of the request. Cookies Collection Property The Cookies collection property contains the values of the cookies sent in the request. Form Collection Property The Form collection property contains the values of the <FORM> elements posted to a form using the POST method. QueryString Collection Property The QueryString collection property contains the values of the variables in the HTTP query string, which are the statements that follow a question mark. ServerVariables Collection Property The ServerVariables collection property contains the values of server environmental variables. This allows access to the HTTP headers. METHOD BinaryRead (Count) Method The BinaryRead method retrieves the data that was sent to the server from the browser as part of a POST request, and returns the number of bytes read.