u can run ASP on your own PC without an external server. To do that, you must install Microsoft's Personal Web Server (PWS) or Internet Information Server (IIS) on your PC. ASP code cannot be viewed in a browser, only the output from ASP can be viewed which is plain HTML. This is because the scripts are executed on the server before the result is sent to the browser. In conclusion, ASP can do many things. It can dynamically edit, change or add any content of a Web page, respond to user queries or data submitted from HTML forms, and access any data or databases and return the results to a browser. ASP can also customize a Web page to make it more useful for individual users, provides security since ASP code cannot be viewed from the browser, and smart ASP programming can minimize network traffic. To put it bluntly, the advantages of using ASP instead of CGI and Perl, are those of simplicity and speed....
