Re: asp files

[salfter@chakotay.ncc74656.org (Scott Alfter)]

In article <wi1P2.14$T3.1010@news15.ispnews.com>,
Randy Shackelford  <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:
>Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>
>:>Is there a way to read asp files?
>
>: AppleWorks Classic, the spreadsheet module.
>
>I'd give Adalbert credit for knowing an Appleworks spreadsheet file. I bet
>he's talking about how a lot of URLs end with .asp these days. That is some
>new fangled kind of file you see when web surfing.

You see them on sites running Microsoft IIS, mainly...I think it's their
version of cgi-bin.  When you access a URL with an ".asp" extension, the
server still spits out the same old HTML that your browser normally uses. 
It's a way (a non-standard way, but this is Microsoft that we're talking
about :-) ) to create a web page that can update itself or respond to user
input.

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