Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

ASP (Active Server Pages)

ASP (Active Server Pages) is a programming environment for Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS). It is primarily used to interface with data on the server to create dynamically generated web pages. It can also be configured to process form information.

Often, you’ll come across a web document that ends in the .asp suffix (as opposed to .html). This indicates that it is a text file that contains HTML and scripting (usually written in VBScript) that is configured to interact with ASP on the server.

For more information on ASP, see Microsoft Developer Network’s page entitled “ASP from A to Z” at http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/server/asp/aspatoz.asp. Another good resource is ASP 101 (http://www.asp101.com).