I must have had a brain fart....this is easy.
if request.servervariables("HTTP_METHOD")="POST" then
' process the form post
else
' the first time on the form, or a page refresh, fall through to the form.
end if
If you want to validate the form, before processing it, and may have to redisplay the form with the values submitted, you add....
if request.servervariables("HTTP_METHOD")="POST" then
' process the form post
' retrieve and filter all the input
' verify the data is correct for submission - e.g. to a db or to an email
if (valid_data) then
' do the db insert, update or e-mail, whatever
response.redirect('success.asp')
else
' fall through to the form
message = "Please fix the errors"
end if
else
' the first time on the form, or a page refresh, fall through to the form.
end if
Then in the HTML
<form>
<%
if message <> "" then
response.write "<p>"&message&"</p>"
%>
<input name="field1" value="<%=filtered_and_safe_posted_field1%>
etc.
Which, by the way, is how I decide whether or not to show the progress bar in the link above...which you should only need for a really slow processing page.
