Introducing ASP (Active Server Pages)
In order to use ASP or any Windows platform scripting, you must be a Web Hosting customer who changed the hosting platform from Linux to Windows.
An Active Server Page (ASP) is an HTML page that includes scripts that are processed on a Microsoft Windows Web server before they are presented to the user requesting the page. ASP files end with the .asp extension.
ASP enables you to create interactive Web pages that are customized to your site's visitors. For example, your ASP scripts can take input provided by a visitor, such as a user name, and use that information to access data stored in a relational database and then modify the page specifically for that user. For more information on databases, see Working the Databases.
ASP provides native support for both Microsoft JScript and VBScript. You can also create ASP scripts using Perlscript or ActiveX Data Objects (ADOs) program statements. All of our Windows plans support ASP 3.0.
For more information on ASP, visit Microsoft's site www.asp.net.
ASP scripts are surrounded by the delimiters <% and %>. The default ASP language is VBScript. However, because ASP scripts can be written in different languages, you must insert a language specification at the top of the .asp page. For example:
<%@ language= "javascript" %>
<html>
<body>
...
</body>
</html>