This section describes what is ASP (Active Server Pages). ASP are Web pages that contains scripting statements executed by the Web server.
What Is ASP (Active Server Pages)? ASP are Web pages that contains scripting statements executed by the Web server.
The output of the scripting statements will be merged with the static parts of the page,
and delivered to the browser as the response to the HTTP request initiated by the
Web browser.
ASP is a technology, not a language. You can write the scripting statements in any
language as long as the Web server can recognize them and execute them. The Microsoft
Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 supports two scripting languages: Visual Basic
Script (VBScript) and Java Script (JScript).
Non-ASP pages can also include scripting statements to be executed by the
Web client, browser, not by the server.
An ASP enabled Web server can not only execute the embedded scripting statements,
but it can also provides additional build-in objects and ability to access external
objects. So there are 4 major areas the ASP technology can bring to your Web pages.
We will discuss each of them in details in the following notes:
