Currently I have a menu-item which when you click it will take the user to an external page.  The problem is I need the URL to have x,y,z appended to the end of the URL depending on which link in the menu they click.  But I also can't have that value displayed in the address bar.

 So as an example the clear text url would be, http://externalsite.com/login.aspx?Myid=123&Myspecialrefno=5678

 

But I need Myid, and MyspecialrefNo to be encoded/non-plaintext values, and I cannot have their true values visible in the code of the page. 

 

What is the best approach for this?  I've considered a simple http POST, but I"m not sure the best way to implement this in the menu as it is for the external redirect!

---

___________________________________________ Make It a Great Day! D-Man

Mark,

  Thanks for the suggestion.  I was really trying to avoid doing that, but it sounds like that may be my only surefire method.  

 If anyone else has an idea sans javascript/hidden controls I'd love to hear it.  But for now I may try this until I see anything else.

---

___________________________________________ Make It a Great Day! D-Man

1) Place a few hidden HTML input controls on a page and set their values to the 2 you need to pass.

2) Use javascript at the end of the page to submit the form when the page loads:

document.forms["sw"].submit();

The values I post are dynamically set using code, so my 2 input controls look like this:

< input name="value1" value="< % CallSomeCodeHereToSetAValue % >" />

Then the page posts using javascript and the user sees a quick post but that lasts less than a second.

Does that help?

Mark