Hellworld.asp

Page source

<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Hello World with date and time of birth</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <h2>Hello World!</h2> I was born at 5:56:56 AM on 8/26/2005 </BODY> </HTML>

Script listing

<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Hello World with date and time of birth</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <% response.write ("<h2>Hello World!</h2> I was born at " & time() & " on " & date()) %> </BODY> </HTML>

Explanation

When a Web browser requests an HTML page, the server returns the page to the browser. With an ASP page, it treats everything between <% and %> as part of a program to be executed by an interpreter running on the server.

Material to be returned to the browser is included in the response object. Anything outside the <% ... %> is added to the response object. The program executing between the <% ... %> generates output using the write method of the response object.

Our first example, Helloworld.asp, is a standard HTML page with one line of code inserted in the middle. As you see, that line of code writes a string of HTML with the current time and date to the response object. That line will be between the <body> and </body> tags.

In this example, the program is written in VB Script, a variant of VB.NET, but any language for which there is an IIS-compatible interpreter can be used.

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