What is an Active Server Page (ASP) ?
Active Server Pages is an open, compile-free application environment in which you can combine HTML, scripts, and reusable ActiveX server components to create dynamic and powerful Web-based business solutions. Active Server Pages enable server-side scripting for Internet Information Server (IIS) with native support for both VBScript and JScript.
Active Server Pages is a language-independent framework designed by Microsoft for efficient coding of server-side scripts that are designed to be executed by a Web server in response to a user’s request for a URL. ASP scripts are similar to other server-side scripting you may be familiar with that are used on other platforms such as Perl, Python, etc.