Some information on ASP.

What ASP Is

Active Server Pages is a programming environment that provides the ability
to combine HTML, scripting, and components to create powerful Internet
applications that run on your server. If you are already creating Web sites
that combine HTML, scripting, and some reusable components, you can use ASP
to glue these items together. You can create an HTML interface for your
application by adding script commands to your HTML pages and you can
encapsulate your business logic into reusable components. These components
can be called from script or other components.

How ASP Works
When you incorporate ASP into your Web site, here's what happens:

1. The user brings up a Web site (like MSDN Online Web Workshop) where the
default page has the extension .asp.
2. The browser requests the ASP file from the Web server.
3. The server-side script begins to run with ASP.
ASP processes the requested file sequentially (top-down), executes any
script commands contained in the file, and produces an HTML Web page.
4. The Web page is sent to the browser.

Because your script runs on the server, the Web server does all of the
processing and standard HTML pages can be generated and sent to the browser.
This means that your Web pages are limited only by what your Web server
supports. Another benefit of having your script reside on the server is that
the user cannot "view source" on the original script and code. Instead, the
user sees only the generated HTML as well as non-HTML content, such as XML,
on the pages that are being viewed.


Regards;

Derek

-----Original Message-----
From: Eileen Ong [R&D] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 3:16 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [DC] Off topic - file with extension .asp


Try to open a file with extension .asp but failed. Any body have got any
idea what type of file this is and need what program to open it.

TIA.

Best Regards,