How ASP works - ASP needs a server to process the code!

When you incorporate ASP into your Web page, here's what happens:

The internet user brings up a web page which has the the extension .asp.
When the browser requests the ASP file from the web server, instead of processing the page like a normal .html or.htm page, the ASP is processed on the server. ASP processes the requested file from top to bottom, executing any script commands contained in the file, and produces pure 100% HTML code. The resultant HTML is then sent back to the brower for the user to view. Because your script runs on the server, the web server does all of the processing and standard HTML pages can be generated and sent back to the browser.

The good news is that ASP pages are thus browser independent, so a web page with the .asp extension can be viewed by all browsers.

Have a look at the diagrams below. They are pretty simplistic and self-explanatory.

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