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ASP vs HTM

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Topic: ASP vs HTM

Posted By: biscayne
Subject: ASP vs HTM
Date Posted: 28 November 2003 at 11:02am

What are the ramifications, if any, of renaming an .htm file .asp. I just tried a couple annd didn't seem to make a difference.

And will that work to add the 'poll' script to a page?

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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 28 November 2003 at 11:26am

There is no noticable difference between htm pages and asp pages serving html content

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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 28 November 2003 at 11:30am

http://www.w3schools.com/asp/asp_intro.asp

Posted By: biscayne
Date Posted: 28 November 2003 at 12:15pm

Very helpful site. Answers a lot of questions. Thanks!

Posted By: theSCIENTIST
Date Posted: 29 November 2003 at 1:27am

There's no difference to the client, but the server has to process the ASP and then send it, as for simple HTM's, they are sent imediatly.

Another consideration is with HTTP compression, in IIS it can compress static, ASP, or both. Compressing ASP takes a liitle CPU processing, so if you rename and HTM to ASP you are just causing a burden for the server, nothing else.