Active Server Pages

Microsoft server-side scripting language and engine Active Server Pages (ASP)DeveloperMicrosoftStable release3.0 / February 17, 2000; 26 years ago (2000-02-17) TypeWeb application frameworkLicenseProprietary softwareWebsitelearn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/iis/6.0-sdk/ms526064(v=vs.90) Active Server PagesFilename extension .aspDeveloped byMicrosoft Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's first server-side scripting language and engine for dynamic web pages. It was first released in December 1996, before being superseded in January 2002 by ASP.NET. History Initially released as an add-on to Internet Information Services (IIS) via the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack (1996), it is included as a component of Windows Server (since the initial release of Windows 2000 Server). There have been three versions of ASP, each introduced with different versions of IIS: ASP 1.0 was released in December 1996 as part of IIS 3.0 ASP 2.0 was released in September 1997 as part of IIS 4.0 ASP 3.0 was released in November 2000 as part of IIS 5.0 ASP 2.0 provides six built-in objects: Application, ASPError, Request, Response, Server, and Session. A Session object, for example, represents a session