function Homepage(){

// in real bits, urls get returned to our script like this:
// res://shdocvw.dll/http_404.htm#http://www.DocURL.com/bar.htm 

	//For testing use DocURL = "res://shdocvw.dll/http_404.htm#https://www.microsoft.com/bar.htm"
	DocURL = document.URL;
		
	//this is where the http or https will be, as found by searching for :// but skipping the res://
	protocolIndex=DocURL.indexOf("://",4);
	
	//this finds the ending slash for the domain server 
	serverIndex=DocURL.indexOf("/",protocolIndex + 3);

		//for the href, we need a valid URL to the domain. We search for the # symbol to find the begining 
	//of the true URL, and add 1 to skip it - this is the BeginURL value. We use serverIndex as the end marker.
	//urlresult=DocURL.substring(protocolIndex - 4,serverIndex);
	BeginURL=DocURL.indexOf("#",1) + 1;
	
	urlresult=DocURL.substring(BeginURL,serverIndex);
				
	//for display, we need to skip after http://, and go to the next slash
	displayresult=DocURL.substring(protocolIndex + 3 ,serverIndex);

	InsertElementAnchor(urlresult, displayresult);
}

function HtmlEncode(text)
{
    return text.replace(/&/g, '&amp').replace(/'/g, '&quot;').replace(/</g, '&lt;').replace(/>/g, '&gt;');
}

function TagAttrib(name, value)
{
    return ' '+name+'="'+HtmlEncode(value)+'"';
}

function PrintTag(tagName, needCloseTag, attrib, inner){
    document.write( '<' + tagName + attrib + '>' + HtmlEncode(inner) );
    if (needCloseTag) document.write( '</' + tagName +'>' );
}

function URI(href)
{
    IEVer = window.navigator.appVersion;
    IEVer = IEVer.substr( IEVer.indexOf('MSIE') + 5, 3 );

    return (IEVer.charAt(1)=='.' && IEVer >= '5.5') ?
        encodeURI(href) :
        escape(href).replace(/%3A/g, ':').replace(/%3B/g, ';');
}

function InsertElementAnchor(href, text)
{
    PrintTag('A', true, TagAttrib('HREF', URI(href)), text);
}


