ASP.NET in a Nutshell

Name

Request

Synopsis

HttpRequest = Page.Request

Returns an instance of the HttpRequest class that allows us to access data from the incoming HTTP requests. It’s the equivalent of the ASP intrinsic Request object. For more information on the HttpRequest class, see Chapter 16.

Parameters

HttpRequest

An object of type HttpRequest that contains the data from the incoming HTTP requests.

Example

The following code example uses the ServerVariables collection of the HttpRequest object to display the IP address of the client making the request:

Sub Page_Load(  )
   Message.Text = "The current request is from: " & _
      CStr(Request.ServerVariables.Item("REMOTE_ADDRESS"))
End Sub

Notes

As with the Application and Cache properties, while you can retrieve a local reference to the HttpRequest instance associated with the request, it is more common to access this instance directly through the Request property, as shown in this example.