[Curiosity] Redirection not possible in WebPage.Open

Targets Web
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Hi

This is a question out of curiosity. Why isn’t it possible to redirect to another page with WebPage.Show in a WebPage.Open event handler?
It does work in a WebPage.Shown event, why is that extra roundtrip needed?

Thanks for insights

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My understanding of those two events is this: Open is the creation of the object. Shown means it’s actually reached the browser.

If I have misunderstood, I would love to know.

With this understanding, Open doesn’t necessarily mean it’s reached the browser, so you wouldn’t be able to control the browser from there.

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[quote=361041:@Mathias Maes]Hi

This is a question out of curiosity. Why isn’t it possible to redirect to another page with WebPage.Show in a WebPage.Open event handler?
It does work in a WebPage.Shown event, why is that extra roundtrip needed?

Thanks for insights[/quote]
I’m curious… what’s the use case?

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Well, I have a webapp that needs certain setup. So the defaultWebpage is “pageLogin”, but if the setup is not yet completed (which I can check with the existence of some files), it should show the setup page. So some pseudocode could look like this:

If setupcompleted = False Then
pageSetup.Show
End If

[quote]

My understanding of those two events is this: Open is the creation of the object. Shown means it’s actually reached the browser.

If I have misunderstood, I would love to know.

With this understanding, Open doesn’t necessarily mean it’s reached the browser, so you wouldn’t be able to control the browser from there.[/quote]

That is also my understanding, that’s why I think: Why not break off the construction of the page, and send the ‘new’ page to the browser?

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Can’t you use the Session.Open Event to show the webpage?

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This is indeed way better. Didn’t think of this!