what exactly is ASP?

[Chooco]

when you make something in DreamWeaver it makes it an ASP file by default but you can also save it as HTML if you want to. i read the code of the ASP file it made and it's all HTML.......so then what is ASP?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Active Server Pages, microsoft tech that has the web server process the page and interpret any script code (between < % ... % > ) before sending the page to the browser.

 

[neuralfx]

correct. its Active Server Pages, server side scripting. Basically you can make dynamically produced web pages possible. Its more heavyweight and open source rival is PHP.
-neural

 

[joohang]

ASP is an ISAPI filter (asp.dll) that allows IIS to interpret the embedded scripting code through a scripting engine - JScript, VBScript, or PerlScript - to dynamically generate an HTML/text output.

In most cases, ASP is suck.

And now that ASP.NET is out, learn that instead.

 

[badxcow]

just another server side language. learn php and mysql first, then pick up asp. asp is pretty damn easy compared to the php and sql duo.