From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Sep 11 14:00:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA17336 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 14:00:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.serv.net (mindbender.serv.net [205.153.153.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA17309; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 14:00:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.8.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA18275; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 13:59:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709112059.NAA18275@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: skat@flask.com cc: Jason McKay , isp@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Active Server Pages In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 11 Sep 97 08:44:20 -0500. Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 13:59:47 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Doug White wrote: >> On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Jason McKay wrote: >> > Allot of my Internet users are asking if they can use their Microsoft Active >> > Server Pages (ASP) on my Apache web server.. Is it possible, if so how? >> I've never heard of that. I would assume that this is some sort of >> Microsoft-server-specific extensions, so no, they wouldn't work. >ASP is similar to SSI (i.e., it accepts INCLUDE, ECHO), except you can embed >VBASIC script in their HTML files. I think, the close Apache equivalent is >PHP/FI (http:www.vex.net/php). I think that's one of the more convoluted descritions I've heard. ;-) ASP stands for Active Server Pages (pretty soon they're going to change the name of Microsoft to "Active Software"). Basically, the core technology of ASP is server-side scripting. You can imbed scripts for any interpreter that has full IActiveScript interface support. This currently includes the VBScript and JavaScript (a. k. a. LiveScript) engines. Supposedly there's also a version of Perl out there that will work in this context. The scripts are interpreted and run on the server when the page that contains them is hit, generating HTML, as necessary, and are capable of invoking and activating standard COM objects on the server. IIS keeps track of session and application scope. It provides objects that give access to the session and application scope. It's actually very cool stuff. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net Contract software development for Windows NT, Windows 95 and Unix. Windows NT and Unix server development in C++ and C. --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------