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Introduction to Active Server Pages
Active Server Pages (ASP) is one of the most exciting and interesting Internet technologies ever created by Microsoft. With ASP, developers can build dynamic websites very easily. A script running on the server receives a request from the client and generates a customized HTML page, which will be returned to the client. ASP is available with Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Server). It is available only with the Windows NT operating system. If you are using Windows 98 or 2000, you can use Microsoft Personal Web Server to test your ASP scripts.
Overall Working of an ASP Page
1. Server receives the request for the ASP Page from the client 2. Server loads the ASP Page and executes the Script and HTML in the page. 3. A new HTML page is generated 4. It is then returned to the user and viewed in the browser.
Since pure HTML is generated, it obviously works on browsers such as Internet Explorer and Netscape.
How to Write an ASP Page
The script in an ASP page can be written by using Visual Basic Script, JavaScript, or JScript (or ECMAScript). JScript is the Microsoft Version of JavaScript. You should use Notepad or any other text editor to write your code. The most ideal tool for coding ASP is Microsoft Visual Interdev. After typing your code, you should save the file with the extension .asp if you use Notepad. If you are using Microsoft Visual Interdev, your .asp file is automatically saved as a .asp file. (See the end of this Session for more information about this tool.) ...
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