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Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)

Active Server Pages is Microsoft's technology for deploying active content on the web. This technology was designed to work on a Windows Operating System that is running Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) (for NT Server) or Microsoft Peer Web Services (for NT Workstation, Win9x). It depends very heavily on Microsoft's COM/DCOM technology at least in a Windows operating environment.

ASP is a very mature technology compared to many others. It is currently in it's version 3 phase (ASP 3.0 - supported by IIS 5.0). ASP is a scripting framework. I say scripting framework rather than scripting language because while most people use Server Side VBScript and VBScript is the default scripting language for ASP when scripting ASP pages, one can in fact use Jscript, PerlScript or any other scripting language for that matter if that is supported on the server in a way that fits in the ISAPI model. The scripting language used can vary from page to page even within the same web application or page.

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