Bryan,

Without trying to cause a flame, I should say that both you and Scott are
right, here. Scott's right in that ASP (Active Server Pages) is not
associated with FrontPage, in that you don't require FrontPage Extensions to
make ASP work. You're right in that FrontPage can be used to script ASP.
HomeSite, Dreamweaver, ColdFusion, BBEdit, and pretty much all the rest can
script ASP pages, too. Heck, you can even script them in NotePage if you
wanted. The only thing you require to make ASP work is an NT server or a
*NIX server running ChiliASP (which is an interpreter).

<% response.write ("This is ASP") %>

See? Even an email can be used to WRITE ASP, but I'll be truly surprised if
that line is actually processed by anyone's email clients. As others have
mentioned, ASP is analogous to PHP, CGI/Perl, CFM, and other server-side
scripting languages. In that the programming for ASP can be written in
JavaScript or VBScript (VB being the default), it's actually easier to learn
for newbies than C++ (which is the basis for Perl, I believe). I personally
prefer using ASP pages on my sites, as it doesn't take a lot of programming
knowledge to manage to create dynamic pages. A few choice variables here and
there, some processing code at the top of the page, and viola! You have a
dynamic page of sorts. The fact that it's server-side can enable a whole
slew of control missing from HTML, such as the ability to do page redirects
without blasting the functionality of the browser's BACK button, as a META
Redirect can do. When you add in SessionID or cookies, you can build a
fairly robust security system for a site that can be difficult for the
average user to break.

Hope this clarifies some things,
Kehvan

----- Original Message -----
From: <bryan.westbrook(at)amd.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 06:56
Subject: RE: ASP


| After putting my foot in my mouth on this subject yesterday, I got to
| thinking about why somebody would post such an easily researched question
to
| the list.  But then I remembered my own attempt to research the topic for
a
| glossary entry (which, BTW, I should have checked first because I definied
| it correctly there) a few months ago.
|
| There are several ASP FAQ's out there, but most of the ones I've seen do
not
| actually contain a definition of what ASP is (I encountered the same thing
a
| while back while looking into AIX).  Defining the subject should be the
| first "Q" of any FAQ.
|
| BTW, you need to be a little more careful in your tone and your word
| choices, Scott.  I was not "absolutely wrong."  I was only partially
wrong.
| Also, you state that ASP has "NOTHING" to do with FrontPage, and that is
| wrong.  ASP pages can be built in FrontPage.
|
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Scott Stahl [mailto:sstahl(at)home.com]
| Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 3:51 PM
| To: Westbrook, Bryan; hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
| Subject: Re: ASP
|
|
| Sorry but you are absolutely wrong on this one, it has NOTHING to do with
| Frontpage.  ASP is a server side scripting language which is run on IIS.
|
|

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