What is ASP?

What is ASP?

• ASP is server side scripting technology that enables scripts (embedded in web pages) to be executed by an Internet server.
• An Asp file can contain HTML,XML, and Scripts.
• An Asp file has the extension ".asp".
• when the browser requests an html file , the server just returns the file without doing any processing.
• when the  browser requests an ASP file, IIS passes the request to the ASP engine (ASP.DLL ) on the server.
• The ASP engine reads the file , line by line , and executed the scripts in the file which is marked as server script in <%  %>
• Finally , the output rendered is returned to the browser as plain HTML.

ASP Objects: Request , Response , Session, Application , Server, ObjectContext & AspError.

<%......%> It contain the server code in VB script. The code out side the delimiter is client side code and is as it is rendered to the client.

<% Response.Write ("hello") %> or <%= "hello" %> are Same.