ASP is Microsoft's server-side scripting
technology. An Active Server Page has an .asp extension
and it mixes HTML and scripting code that can be written
in VBScript or JScript. ASP is distributed with Microsoft's
IIS web server, so most host using IIS will also offer
ASP for dynamic web programming. ASP.NET is the next
version of ASP. Other popular server-side scripting
languages are Perl, PHP, ColdFusion, TCL, Python, and
JSP. An Active Server Page is a web page that includes
program code that is processed on a Microsoft web server
before the page is sent to the user. The code is typically
used to access data from a database and that data is
then built into the returned web page "on the
fly". ASP was developed by Microsoft and is a
feature of Microsoft's web server software, but the
dynamically generated pages can be viewed by almost
any browser. |
