About Classic ASP

• What is ASP?
  ASP stands for Active Server Pages
  ASP is a program that runs inside IIS
  IIS stands for Internet Information Services
  IIS comes as a free component with Windows 2000
  IIS is also a part of the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack
  The Option Pack can be downloaded from Microsoft
  PWS is a smaller - but fully functional - version of IIS
  PWS can be found on your Windows 95/98 CD
  ASP Compatibility
  ASP is a Microsoft Technology
  To run IIS you must have Windows NT 4.0 or later
  To run PWS you must have Windows 95 or later
  ChiliASP is a technology that runs ASP without Windows OS
  InstantASP is another technology that runs ASP without Windows
  What is an ASP File?
  An ASP file is just the same as an HTML file
  An ASP file can contain text, HTML, XML, and scripts
  Scripts in an ASP file are executed on the server
  An ASP file has the file extension ".asp"
  How Does ASP Differ from HTML?
  When a browser requests an HTML file, the server returns the file
  When a browser requests an ASP file, IIS passes the request to the ASP engine. The ASP engine reads the ASP file, line by line, and executes the scripts in the file. Finally, the ASP file is returned to the browser as plain HTML