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GLOSSARY of Internet Terms
- ASP
Active Server Pages.
a Microsoft technology similar to CGI that is used to create
dynamic content
for a web page. It is a server−side scripting language mostly used
on Windows platforms. Pages using ASP are created with VBScript,
Perlscript or JavaScript, and then integrated with the HTML of a
page. ASP is typically used to perform database access or other
interactive functions that are interpreted by Microsoft’s Internet
information server When a Web browser requests an ASP page, the
Web server generates a page with HTML code and sends it back to
the browser. Web sites using ASP pages are database-driven, in
terms of retrieving and updating content. ASP pages have the
extension .asp instead of .htm or .html.
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