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ASP - Active Server Pages
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An Active
Server Page (ASP) is an HTML page that includes one or more scripts (small
embedded programs) that are processed on a web server before the page is
sent to the user. An ASP is somewhat similar to a server-side include or a
common gateway interface (CGI) application in that all involve programs that
run on the server, usually tailoring a page for the user. Typically, the
script in the Web page at the server uses input received as the result of
the user's request for the page to access data from a database and then
builds or customises the page on the fly before sending it to the requestor.
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ASP is a normally a
feature of the Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), but, we use Sun
Chili!Soft ASP, which allows us to provide ASP services on a more stable,
scalable Linux platform. Since the server-side script is just building a
regular HTML page, it can be delivered to almost any browser. You can create
an ASP file by including a script written in VBScript in an HTML file or by
using ActiveX Data Objects (ADOs) program statements in the HTML file. You
name the HTML file with the ".asp" file suffix. Microsoft recommends the use
of the server-side ASP rather than a client-side script, where there is
actually a choice, because the server-side script will result in an easily
displayable HTML page. Client-side scripts (for example, with JavaScript)
may not work as intended on older browsers.
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