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In article <9q5goq$2413$1@nntp1.ba.best.com>, inwap@best.com (Joe Smith) wrote:
>>Is there a way to use javascript or an SSI to read a [session] cookie,
>>then include a header file depending on the presence or absence or value
>>of that cookie?  (rather than using a cgi script)
>
>SSI (Server Side Includes) have to be done on the server, NOT on
>the browser.

Et tu Joe.

That was my first reaction too.

>>javascript snippet
>>---------------------
>>var foo = getCookie('foo');
>>getCookie('foo');
>>if (foo == 'red') {
>> document.write('<!--#include
>>file="/webadmin/home/pub/login/public_html/test.html" -->');
>
>That tells JavaScript running on the browser to put an angle bracket,
>exclamation point, two hyphens, a pound sign and other stuff in 
>the browser's cache.  The BESTWWWD never sees that string.
>SSIs have to exist in the *.shtml file on the server in order for
>the server to do anything with it.

But the server can expand the SSI *before* the document
(including the JS) is sent to the client.

I think that SSI tags do often need to be on one line. So
it may be better to write this as:

document.write('
<!--#include file="/webadmin/home/pub/login/public_html/test.html" -->
');

However, I don't know enough about JS to be sure how multi-line
quoted string literals are handled. That may demand a tweak.

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Malcolm Hoar
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