What is an Active Server Page?
An Active Server Page is a web page that “executes” in a server-side execution environment in Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 3.0, or higher, and that uses ActiveX scripting, normally VBScript or JavaScript code. When a browser requests an ASP page, the Web server generates a page with HTML code and transmits it back to the browser. An Active Server Page can combine HTML with scripts to create dynamic, interactive, and appealing Web pages. With ASP you can customize your Web pages to be more efficient and more receptive to your users. Some examples of what you can do with ASP include placing counters on your Web site that count the number of times your Web site is accessed, and creating a Web page that displays different information to different users. The Differences between Active Server Pages and Conventional HTML With conventional static HTML, the user types in a Web address and the browser sends a request for the Web page to a Web server. The Web server receives the re
