Active Server Pages (ASP)
Active Server Pages (ASP), often referred to as Classic ASP, is a server-side scripting engine developed by Microsoft for dynamically generated web pages. It allowed developers to embed VBScript or JScript code directly within HTML pages, processed by the web server to generate HTML output sent…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 1996
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Active Server Pages was created to simplify and improve upon the existing methods for generating dynamic web content, primarily Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts. CGI was resource-intensive and often complex, especially for developers using Microsoft technologies, lacking tight integration with the Windows server ecosystem.
- Platforms
- web, Windows Server (specifically IIS), windows