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| What is Common Gateway Interface (CGI)? |
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| A the first server-side scripting standard; used for running external programs from a Web server. A CGI program can access information in a database and return the results to a client as HTML. CGI programs can be either a compiled application (written in C) or a script (written in Perl or Python). This was the de facto standard for Web applications. |
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| What was the predominant operating system for servers when CGI scripting was the standard, and what was the most popular programming language used? |
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| What programming language did Microsoft create to compete with Perl? |
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| Internet Database Connector. |
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| Internet Server Application Programming Interface scripts (or filters) are compiled DLLs that are loaded in an IIS application. ISAPI allows CGI-like tasks to run as part of the server process. This helps avoid the overhead involved in creating a new process to handle each CGI request, which overloads a server. |
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| ASP (Active Server Pages) was CGI, ISAPI, and IDC in one. ASP is like a container of objects that could be used by VBScript or JScript. It was powerful because it allowed recordsets to be accesses and displayed in any order, any time, in a Web page. |
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| What is contained in an ASP page? |
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| What are the five ASP objects? |
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| Server, Application, Session, Response, Request |
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| A light-weight scripting language based on visual basic. It is the code in ASP. ASP is like a bucket in which you pour VBScript. |
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| What is ADO (ActiveX Directory Objects)? |
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| ADO is a set of COM objects used for accessing databases. |
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