Setting/Retreiving a Cooking form a Folder Home Page
 

I've got a .html page with VBScript that successfully writes a cookie and
returns the values when the .html page is viewed via IE. However, when the
..html page is hosted within Outlook as a folder home page, the code executes
but without writing the cookie. (I've a got a msgbox in the code that
confirms that the code has executed)

Any ideas?

Setting/Retreiving a Cooking form a Folder Home Page
 

Probably security settings when the Web page is shown in Outlook since
Outlook folder home pages are shown under restricted security.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"dch3" wrote in message
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I've got a .html page with VBScript that successfully writes a cookie and
returns the values when the .html page is viewed via IE. However, when the
.html page is hosted within Outlook as a folder home page, the code
executes
but without writing the cookie. (I've a got a msgbox in the code that
confirms that the code has executed)

Any ideas?

Setting/Retreiving a Cooking form a Folder Home Page
 

So how woiuld I go about changing the security settings?

"Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Probably security settings when the Web page is shown in Outlook since
Outlook folder home pages are shown under restricted security.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"dch3" wrote in message
...
I've got a .html page with VBScript that successfully writes a cookie and
returns the values when the .html page is viewed via IE. However, when the
.html page is hosted within Outlook as a folder home page, the code
executes
but without writing the cookie. (I've a got a msgbox in the code that
confirms that the code has executed)

Any ideas?

Setting/Retreiving a Cooking form a Folder Home Page
 

You can set the security to a lower setting but that is very risky and any
other application could then corrupt your Outlook or Windows. See
www.slipstick.com for methods to change Internet security for Outlook for
your version.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"dch3" wrote in message
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So how woiuld I go about changing the security settings?

Setting/Retreiving a Cooking form a Folder Home Page
 

What do you think about just using the FileSystemObject to just write the
information to a .txt file and then retreive it? The point behind the cookie
is to give my users some control over the content displayed.

"Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

You can set the security to a lower setting but that is very risky and any
other application could then corrupt your Outlook or Windows. See
www.slipstick.com for methods to change Internet security for Outlook for
your version.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"dch3" wrote in message
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So how woiuld I go about changing the security settings?

Setting/Retreiving a Cooking form a Folder Home Page
 

Using FSO would work unless the user is running a script stopper program,
like those in certain A-V or software firewalls. Those often block using New
or CreateObject so they would block creation of an FSO object.

If whatever language you're using has intrinsic file operations you might be
better of using those instead of a scripting solution to write out a text
file. An alternate would be storing your "cookie" information in the
registry.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"dch3" wrote in message
...
What do you think about just using the FileSystemObject to just write the
information to a .txt file and then retreive it? The point behind the
cookie
is to give my users some control over the content displayed.

Setting/Retreiving a Cooking form a Folder Home Page
 

What sort of issues would I have to be aware of when working with the
registry via VBScript? The fear of registry corruption has been bread into my
genetic makeup.

"Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Using FSO would work unless the user is running a script stopper program,
like those in certain A-V or software firewalls. Those often block using New
or CreateObject so they would block creation of an FSO object.

If whatever language you're using has intrinsic file operations you might be
better of using those instead of a scripting solution to write out a text
file. An alternate would be storing your "cookie" information in the
registry.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"dch3" wrote in message
...
What do you think about just using the FileSystemObject to just write the
information to a .txt file and then retreive it? The point behind the
cookie
is to give my users some control over the content displayed.

Setting/Retreiving a Cooking form a Folder Home Page
 

Well, from VBScript you'd end up using Windows Scripting to write/read the
registry so you'd buy nothing in that case. I missed the VBScript part in
the last post I made, you don't have many alternatives to FSO with VBScript
code.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"dch3" wrote in message
...
What sort of issues would I have to be aware of when working with the
registry via VBScript? The fear of registry corruption has been bread into
my
genetic makeup.

Setting/Retreiving a Cooking form a Folder Home Page
 

So using Windows Scripting are there any cavets or pitfalls to look out for
with writting to the registyry?

"Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Well, from VBScript you'd end up using Windows Scripting to write/read the
registry so you'd buy nothing in that case. I missed the VBScript part in
the last post I made, you don't have many alternatives to FSO with VBScript
code.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"dch3" wrote in message
...
What sort of issues would I have to be aware of when working with the
registry via VBScript? The fear of registry corruption has been bread into
my
genetic makeup.

Setting/Retreiving a Cooking form a Folder Home Page
 

Other than script stoppers preventing New or CreateObject (or even
GetObject) from running, or permissions issues writing to the registry or
only being able to use the registry value types supported by scripting? Not
that I'm aware of.

Some people have reported that using CreateObject does work with at least
some script stoppers when using it this way: CreateObject("app.name",
"LocalHost"). That might be helpful to you.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"dch3" wrote in message
...
So using Windows Scripting are there any cavets or pitfalls to look out
for
with writting to the registyry?