Friday, August 9, 2013

ASP Defined

Active Server Pages (ASP). ASP was developed by Microsoft and works only with Microsoft servers (unless other helper software is used such as ChilliSoft). ASP are a step up from the clunky CGI-programs that have historically been used to process forms and to serve dynamic Web pages based on user selections. Unlike traditional CGI programs which must reinitialize for each request sent to it, ASP have the ability to maintain a session from page to page. This ability, coupled with its built-in ODBC features, make it an excellent tool for implementing online searchable databases.

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