"Active Server Pages is an
open, compile-free application environment in which you can combine
HTML, scripts, and reusable ActiveX server components to create
dynamic and powerful Web-based business solutions. Active Server
Pages enables server-side scripting for IIS with native support for
both VBScript and Jscript." (ASP description by Microsoft®)
Microsoft attempted to change all this when they introduced
Active Server Pages. ASPs are server-generated pages which can call
other programs to do things like
access databases, serve
different pages to different browsers - basically, anything we used
to do with CGI. ASP is almost as efficient as writing code directly
to the server's application program interface, and it's a lot more
efficient than CGI because it runs as a service and can take
advantage of multithreaded architectures.
