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ASP is an acronym for Active Server Pages. It is a very powerful server-side technology that enables easy generation of dynamic web pages, as well as complex web sites integrated to a back-end database.
ASP exists in two variants: standard ASP, usually written in VBScript (Visual Basic Script) and JSP, JavaScript Server Pages, written in JavaScript. This section focuses on scripts written in VBScript, but the same principles hold true for JSP.
Because ASP is a server-side technology, an interpreter is required for the scripts to be executed. The easiest method is to use Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS): either version 4, which comes as part of the Windows NT Option Pack for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, or version 5, which comes as part of Microsoft Windows 2000 Server.
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