Active Server Pages (ASPs)
Active Server Pages (ASPs) are enabled by the use of server-side scripts. ASPs use scripts to orchestrate the interaction of COM components and to enable the pages to respond to a user's request. ASPs were introduced with Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 3.0, and were greatly enhanced in the 4.0 and 5.0 releases .
An Active Server Page is a collection of server-side scripts and HTML tags in files that reside on the server. When the server sees that a user calls a file with an ASP extension, it passes the file to an Internet Server Application Programming Interface (ISAPI) filter, called asp.dll. The filter interprets the script and emits the results back to the client. This is the best of all worlds; it ...
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