Posts Tagged ‘Internet Information Server’
The Advantages of ASP
An ASP is known as an Active Server Page. It is a server scripting technology that is for building web pages that are both dynamic and interactive. The ASP implementation was created by Microsoft and gives web developers the freedom to create dynamic websites accessed from the many Microsoft COM-compliant data sources available. It is distributed within Microsoft’s web specific products including:
Internet Information Server (IIS) – 2000 / XP Pro / NT4 Personal Web Server (PWS) – Windows 98
HTML Editors – Front Page and Visual Interdev
ASP is simple to understand and create, yet powerful enough to allow:
Interaction between the user and the server
Behind the scenes access to databases and other servers
User of the powerful COM components
Support varying types of browsers the web site visitor is using
It uses a combination of standard HTML and text, and XML, but can also access other standard scripting languages such as VBScript and JavaScript. The standard extension for an ASP is .asp, instead of the normal .htm extension. It is incorrect to consider ASP as a language itself; it is a technology that enables web developers to create sites that don’t rely on static HTML.
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