The Internet is one of the great marvels of human achievement. That may sound overly grandiose, especially considering the amount of spam we all get trying to sell us garbage, the commandeering of useful keywords that makes it more difficult to find specific information and all the other clutter we all come across on a daily basis. Nonetheless, the fact that we’re all hooking into it so much of the time is, in itself, a testament to how useful it has become. One of the most interesting things about the Internet and its development is the fact that it is continually adapting around us and becoming more Interactive and fluid as time goes one. Historically, ASP server software is one of the developments that really embedded this quality into the Internet with which we are now so familiar.
The language we use to describe and talk about the Internet has, in some senses, lagged behind the times. For example, one of the most common terms associated with the Internet and its usage is the word “webpage,” and this term lends itself to a conception of a fixed artifact, a stable text to be read and which never changes. Indeed, many webpages are fixed in this way. You pull up a page and it’ll display text and our experience of it is much the same as that of a book. There are, however, other pages that that are a lot more Interactive, pages that require or respond to user input. While there are still many uses for the simple book-page style website, the Internet is moving pretty consistently toward the latter, more dynamically functional form. The ability to incorporate dynamic content and use input is made possible by ASP server functionality.
The acronym ASP stands for Active Server Pages, and this environment is not, by itself, enough to run a server. ASP is an environment run on a server and its main purpose is to combine and integrate various, usually independent, computer languages making it possible to make much richer presentations and to implement more advanced applications. Most people are familiar with HTML (hypertext markup language) which forms the basis of most Internet usage. It is a code that tells a browser what, and how, to display information. Most pages are loaded by having your web browser connect to a domain, download, read and display an HTML file. HTML files, however, are essentially static.
ASP still sends an HTML file to your browser, but the process is more complicated. Your browser will request a page from a server, which in turn will relay the request to the ASP software it is running. The ASP software will process the requested file, which can incorporate many different types of processes and applications, drawing, perhaps, on input from surfers, and then produces an HTML file script which your browser can implement. What this means in English is that you can access and run all kinds of interactive applications through a web browser by having the server do all the processing remotely and relay the end product to your computer in a way it can read. For the casual Internet server, ASP doesn’t really mean anything in particular because it isn’t an end in itself but rather the environment in which many of the things we take for granted exist. The ASP server environment grants almost limitless possibilities for creating dynamic webpages and can be invaluable to designers even if it remains largely unseen to most users.
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