What is ASP?

[vinod]

ASP is a server side scripting technology that enables scripts (embedded in web pages) to be executed by an Internet server.

ASP is a Microsoft Technology
ASP stands for Active Server Pages
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
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 it Work?
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 on the server
The ASP engine reads the file, line by line, and executes the scripts in the file
Finally, the ASP file is returned to the browser as plain HTML
Before you study ASP .NET, it would help to have a basic understanding of Microsoft's ASP technology.

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