Reading ASP Code from a PHP Script

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   Hey guys (and gals),

I had a podcasting directory web developer post on my forum out of the
blue to promote his directory/website. That was cool but it led to an
interesting discussion on his scripts ability to "read ASP code". Here
is a quote from him:

 kaspar wrote:

My script actually reads the file on your server, not the rendered
HTML. It's as if I downloaded your ASP file and looked for (some but
not all) the xml tags.

To which I replied:

 xeerex wrote:

Ummm -- you want to explain how that is possible since anything inside
the ASP delimiters is preprocessed by IIS? Your script would have to
parse through code and figure out my variables which is next to
impossible assuming the code wasn't preprocessed.

'Write out the code for RSS items as we loop through them

    Response.Write("<item>")

    Response.Write("<title>"& strSongName &"</title>")

    Response.Write("<link>"& strFeedURL &"/"& objFile.Name &"</link>")

    Response.Write("<description>"& strAlbum &"</description>")

    Response.Write("<pubDate>"& strPubDateFile &"</pubDate>")

    Response.Write("<enclosure url="""&
strEnclosureURL &""" length="""& intFileLength &"""
type=""audio/mpeg""/>")

    Response.Write("</item>")

Anyone want to comment or weigh in on this? You don't have to reply on my forum (or you can). I just want some feedback on this.

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