What does ASP mean

ASP is an abbreviation for "Active Server Page", meaning "active servers Web pages." ASP is an application developed by Microsoft to replace the CGI script program, it can interact with database and other programs, it is a simple and convenient programming tool. ASP's Web page files are in the format of. asp and are now used in a variety of dynamic Web sites. ASP is a server-side scripting environment that you can use to create and run dynamic Web pages or Web applications. ASP Web pages can include HTML tags, plain text, script commands, and COM components. Using ASP, you can add interactive content, such as online forms, to a Web page, or you can create a Web application that uses an HTML Web page as a user interface. ASP Web pages have the following characteristics compared to HTML:

(1) The use of ASP can break through some of the static Web page function restrictions, to achieve dynamic Web page technology;

(2) ASP file is included in the HTML code in the file composed of, easy to modify and test;

(3) The ASP interpreter on the server will develop ASP program on the server side, and transmit the result in HTML format to the client browser, so the Web page generated by ASP can be browsed normally by using various browsers;

(4) ASP provides a number of built-in objects that can be used to make server-side scripting more powerful. For example, you can get information submitted by a user through an HTML form from a Web browser, process the information in a script, and then send the information to a Web browser;

(5) ASP can use server-side ActiveX builds to perform a variety of tasks, such as accessing the database, discovering the email, or accessing the file system.

(6) Because the server is the ASP program execution results in HTML format back to the client browser, so the user will not see the original program code written by ASP, can place ASP program code stolen.

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