>I am not sure to understand what you mean by issuing response.redirect - server side. My understanding is that, the reponse.redirect is executed by the server before sending the page specify in parameters to the client browser. But parameters used to call that page are show.
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>Thanks for your help.

If you do whatever you need to do in an ASP file, and an error occurs - then you redirect the client to another page, nothing is seen by the user.

In your server side vbscript...
call com object
update data
whatever

if good result
return
else
response.redirect(to your error page)
end