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What is ASP?
Active Server Pages or ASP, as it is more commonly known, is a technology that
enables you to make dynamic and interactive web pages.
ASP uses server-side scripting to dynamically produce web pages that are not
affected by the type of browser the web site visitor is using.
The default scripting language used for writing ASP is VBScript, although you
can use other scripting languages like JScript (Microsoft's version of
JavaScript).
ASP pages have the extension .asp instead of .htm, when a page with the
extension .asp is requested by a browser the web server knows to interpret any
ASP contained within the web page before sending the HTML produced to the
browser. This way all the ASP is run on the web server and no ASP will ever be
passed to the web browser.
Any web pages containing ASP cannot be run by just simply opening the page in a
web browser. The page must be requested through a web server that supports ASP,
this is why ASP stands for Active Server Pages, no server, no active pages.
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