13.4. Controlling email with ASP and PHP server script

13.4.1. The basic ASP framework to send email

So far we have said a great deal about browsers, ECMAScript (or client-side script), and their applications on the Web. Client-side scripting is great for animating Web pages, and performing local data validation, computations, and manipulations. However the Internet, and hence its related Web technologies, is about the creation and integration of large-scale client–server applications. From this point of view, XHTML at large can be considered as a straight-through client–server application on the Internet since the server pays no attention to the page content.

If you want to build real server applications on the Web, you will need to concentrate ...

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