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Active Server Pages: What Is ASP?

Active Server Pages (ASP) is a Microsoft technology that allows for server-side scripting functionality. ASP files have a .asp extension and contain text, HTML, XML, and scripts. When a browser requests an ASP file, the ASP engine on the web server reads the file line by line and executes any scripts before returning plain HTML to the browser. This enables ASP files to dynamically generate and customize web page content. ASP requires Windows and the Internet Information Services (IIS) or Personal Web Server (PWS) to function.

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Active Server Pages: What Is ASP?

Active Server Pages (ASP) is a Microsoft technology that allows for server-side scripting functionality. ASP files have a .asp extension and contain text, HTML, XML, and scripts. When a browser requests an ASP file, the ASP engine on the web server reads the file line by line and executes any scripts before returning plain HTML to the browser. This enables ASP files to dynamically generate and customize web page content. ASP requires Windows and the Internet Information Services (IIS) or Personal Web Server (PWS) to function.

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Active Server Pages

What is ASP?

ASP stands for Active Server Pages ASP is a Microsoft Technology ASP is a program that runs inside IIS IIS stands for Internet Information Services IIS comes as a free component with Windows 2000 IIS is also a part of the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack The Option Pack can be downloaded from Microsoft PWS is a smaller - but fully functional - version of IIS PWS can be found on your Windows 95/98 CD

ASP Compatibility

To run IIS you must have Windows NT 4.0 or later To run PWS you must have Windows 95 or later ChiliASP is a technology that runs ASP without Windows OS InstantASP is another technology that runs ASP without Windows

What is an ASP File?


An ASP file is just the same as an HTML file An ASP file can contain text, HTML, XML, and scripts Scripts in an ASP file are executed on the server An ASP file has the file extension ".asp"

How Does ASP Differ from HTML?


When a browser requests an HTML file, the server returns the file When a browser requests an ASP file, IIS passes the request to the ASP engine. The ASP engine reads the ASP file, line by line, and executes the scripts in the file. Finally, the ASP file is returned to the browser as plain HTML

What can ASP do for you?


Dynamically edit, change, or add any content of a Web page Respond to user queries or data submitted from HTML forms Access any data or databases and return the results to a browser Customize a Web page to make it more useful for individual users The advantages of using ASP instead of CGI and Perl, are those of simplicity and speed Provide security - since ASP code cannot be viewed from the browser Clever ASP programming can minimize the network traffic Note: Because ASP scripts are executed on the server, the browser that displays the ASP file does not need to support scripting at all!

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