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A Typical ASP Page and the fundamental mechanisms of Server Side scripting

Now let us go over the essential mechanisms that are ASP:

A user asks for a page say:
http://www.coyoteindustries.com/hi.asp
The Web Server find the file and then processes all the ASP code between <% ... %> before handing back the page. Code between <% ... %> never arrives at the browser.

<html><head> <TITLE>hi.asp</TITLE> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Today is <%=now%> and all is well<br> <%if hour(now())>12 THEN%> Good Evening <%ELSE%> Good Morning! <%END IF%> </body></html>	The webserver file <<<<<<<
	ASP compiler grabs page Interprets all the <% %> markers before browser sees page!
<html><head> <TITLE>hi.asp</TITLE> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Today is Tue 10:30am and all is well<br> Good Morning </body></html>	Before 12pm the user at the browser receives <<<<<<<

<html><head> <TITLE>hi.asp</TITLE> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Today is Tue 02:00pm and all is well<br> Good Day! </body></html>	After 12pm the user at the browser receives <<<<<<<

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