Classic ASP, Still a Classic Server-Side Scripting Language
Learning server side scripting has always been one of the things many Web designers usually fancy. Some of them end up learning some basic level PHP so that they can earn their livelihood without much trouble. After all, in this era of cut-throat competition your clients, customers, and employers expect you to be master of everything. Good thing is, it doesn’t really take a lot of struggle to master server side scripting anymore; thanks to the early server side scripting languages such as ASP.
ASP (Active Server Pages) was the first ever server side scripting language produced by Microsoft Inc that changed the face of Web application programming to a great extent. Being embedded in the static HTML pages, it allows the Web developers to take their skills and their websites to a next level. ASP allowed the developers to make dynamic websites that were not affected by the browser being used by the surfers. Unlike HTML, Javascript, and VBScript that run completely within the browsers, the ASP code is executed on the web server where the website has been hosted.
ASP pages are saved with the file names having the .ASP extension. Upon a request by the browser for a page ending with an .ASP extension, web server automatically understands that it needs to be interpreted and executed by the web server. The web server then executes the ASP code embedded in the ASP age and embeds its result in the HTTP response to be returned to the browser. This way the server side code remains completely hidden from the user of the website or web application. So, if your website showcases some great Canvas Printing masterpieces but runs some ASP code to authenticate the visitors, visitors will only see what you want them to see and no the internal details of the system.
Of course, you need to run your ASP application on a web server that supports ASP. For instance, Microsoft’s proprietary web server, IIS (Internet Information Services) is a web server that has been used most widely to run the websites that are powered by Active Server Pages.
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