Responsetext returns entire html page

lukin

You've probably come across this problem before. I have an Ajax site that has a response.write call in a c# page. This response is read on a javascript function as XMLHTTP.responseText.
It is returning what I want but there is an entire page of html after it. I have other places on the site where XMLHTTP.responseText is returned and there is no problem.
I think it is because previously on the button that calls the XMLHTTP.responseText there is another function that calls displays XMLHTTP.responseText.
I actually had this problem before and it fixed itself but I can't remember how.
I googled it and it said you can't get rid of it, you just have to parse out the part you want. Surely this can't be correct?
I could parse it but it's not reliable.

mewso

The code that is writing the response should finish with response.end or else the complete html of the page will render.

lukin

musician wrote: »

The code that is writing the response should finish with response.end or else the complete html of the page will render.

It does.:)

mewso

Is it running in the page load event? When I do this the ajax call to the page adds a querystring of callback=true for example. I check for this querystring in the page load and run a procedure determined by the querystring callbackid otherwise the page loads normally. I would also have response.flush before response.end. You probably have that anyway.

lukin

It is running in the page load event actually. I don't have Response.flush (didn't know it existed). I have tried response.everything else!
I'll give your suggestions a go, thanks.

lukin

Still displaying a load of HTML, I've changed the C# code to this:

Session.Clear();
                            Response.ClearContent();
                            Response.End();
                            string ren2 = ListOfIDs;
                            Response.ContentType = "text/plain";
                            Response.Write(ren2);
                            Response.Flush();
                            Response.End();

When I put an alert in the client JavaScript code like so:

alert(XMLHTTP.responseText);

the alert box displays the list of ids at the top but a load of html straight after it.

When I run it on my local pc it just returns what I want (the ListOfIDs) but on the live site it does the above.

If I can't get it to just return the variable, then is there a way I can edit the responsetext in C# to make it delete the html?

mewso

Whats the purpose of the response.end at the beginning? Maybe try removing it.

lukin

Did that and it still returns HTML. I am sick of it at this stage now, I am just going to use a javascript function on the client code to strip everything after the first occurrence of "<" in the responsetext as no matter what I do server side it returns html every time.
I cannot understand why something which works on localhost does not work the same on the live version.
Thanks for the replies anyway.