Please explain to me what .asp does

[Gert Sorensen]

Hi everybody,

We are about to implement an online system that has been written in .asp. The system is to be validated but I am not sure if .asp runs code on the clients. Can anybody explain to me (in laymans terms) what .asp does, and if there are any specific things that we should consider when validating the software?

Thanks in advance

Gert

[Ajit Basrur]

Originally Posted by Gert Sorensen

Hi everybody,

We are about to implement an online system that has been written in .asp. The system is to be validated but I am not sure if .asp runs code on the clients. Can anybody explain to me (in laymans terms) what .asp does, and if there are any specific things that we should consider when validating the software?

Thanks in advance

Gert

ASP stands for Active Server Page or Application Service Provider.

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[chergh]

asp combines html with a scripting language. The scripting language gets the information from the datasource and the html then displays it on the screen.

For validating your probably going to be wanting to validate the each of the scripts for the info they retrieve and then validate the html to ensure it displays the data properly.

[Gert Sorensen]

Originally Posted by chergh

asp combines html with a scripting language. The scripting language gets the information from the datasource and the html then displays it on the screen.

For validating your probably going to be wanting to validate the each of the scripts for the info they retrieve and then validate the html to ensure it displays the data properly.

That is supposing it only runs on the serverside, right? My gut feeling about this tells me that maybe the programmer has some sort of script running on the clients. Any suggestions if that is the case?

[chergh]

Can't you ask the programmer?

It's easier to have the scripts located on the server side than the client, you don't have to worry about how to distribute the scripts to the client side for one thing or the associated pains in the ass that come with it.

If you want to find out for sure take a PC that the programmer couldn't have installed the scripts on and then access the asp pages using this PC. If everything works the same it's very unlikely you'll have scripts running client side, if it doesn't work the same then you may have client side scripts.

[Ettore]

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