The full URL to a page comes in three parts: The domain name, the path to the file then the filename, and the QueryString. For example, take the URL http://www.example.com/example/page.asp?name=Bob. The three parts of this
ASP is a new scripting technology that comes with Microsoft
IIS web server and enables web programmers to create
powerful web applications and pages. These dynamic pages
are the result of running a code on the server. Server
receives user?s input from browser, runs the script and
creates a web page on the fly and sends it back to browser.
We can use different languages such as vbscript and jscript
with asp scripting method. ASP is now available on Unix
platforms by a third party company ?chili soft?. For Unix
people asp is very similar to PHP scripting.
ASP performs several types of repetitive operations, called "looping". Loops are set of instructions used to repeat the same block of code till a specified condition returns false or true depending on how you need it. To control the loops you can use counter variable that increments or decrements with each repetition of the loop.
The two major groups of loops are For..Next and Do..Loop. The For...Next statements are best used when you want to perform a loop a specific number of times. The Do...Loop statements are best used to perform a loop an undetermined number of times. In addition, you can use the Exit keyword within loop statements.
Our server may allow us to use ASP only in the "cgi-bin" directory or in all the site. Depending on this fact we may need to change the path to the files we are manipulating. Here, we will consider a server which allows using ASP in the entire site.
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