Introduction -- What You'll Learn in the Next 24 Hours -- What You Need -- Downloading the Examples -- Conventions Used in This Book -- ASP Fundamentals -- Creating Your First Page -- What You Need to Run ASP -- Personal Web Server (PWS) -- Internet Information Server -- Write a Little ASP Example -- Handling an ASP File -- The Browser's Result of a Computed ASP File -- Q & A -- Workshop -- Quiz -- Exercise -- Introducing Internet Information Server -- Choosing Your Development Platform -- Personal Web Server for Windows 95/98 -- Personal Web Server for Windows NT Workstation -- IIS on Windows NT Server -- Chili! ASP on Various Platforms -- Creating a Web Site from Scratch -- Adding IP Addresses to Windows NT -- Creating the Web Site -- Setting Default Documents -- Creating Virtual Directories -- ASP Compared to Other Technologies -- Technologies Out of the Box -- Additional Technologies for IIS -- Q & A -- Workshop -- Quiz -- Working with ASP -- ASP Architecture -- Built-In ASP Objects -- Scripting Languages in ASP -- Creating Reusable Code Blocks -- ASP Development Tools -- VBScript Crash Course -- Conditional Statements -- Loops -- Procedures -- Q & A -- Workshop -- Quiz -- Interacting with the User -- Sending Data to the User -- Combining VBScript and HTML -- Buffering Output -- Determining the Content Type -- Redirecting the User -- Formatting Locale-Specific Data -- Q & A -- Workshop -- Quiz -- Exercise -- Retrieving Information from the User -- Retrieving Environment Variables -- Using the Virtual Path of the Script -- Find Out the Length of Posted Content -- Retrieve HTTP Headers -- Read the Client's IP Address -- Use of Multiple Domains on a Virtual Server -- Creating and Sending a Web Form -- Using the GET Method -- Using the POST Method -- How to Separate Multiple Fields -- Validation of Data -- Check for Numeric Data -- Check for a Valid Date -- Q & A -- Workshop -- Quiz -- Exercise -- Managing User Sessions and Applications -- Web Applications Revisited -- User Session Management -- General Usage of the Session Object -- The Behavior of Session Cookies -- Use the global.asa to Specify Event Scripts -- Tracking Page Hits -- Tracking the Number of Users -- Q & A -- Workshop -- Quiz -- Exercise -- Persisting Information About the User -- Cookie Basics -- Setting Cookies -- Creating a Permanent Cookie -- Using Cookie Dictionaries -- Retrieving Cookies -- Checking the Cookie-Enabled State of the Client -- Checking Using the Session Object -- Using a Generic Approach -- Q & A -- Workshop -- Quiz -- Exercise -- Advanced Use of Intrinsic ASP Objects -- Encoding Strings -- HTML-Encoding Strings -- URL-Encoding Strings -- Codepages and Character Sets -- Character Sets -- Codepages -- Mapping Server Paths -- Limiting Script Timeout -- Advanced Headers -- Q & A -- Workshop -- Quiz -- Exercise -- Extending the Reach of ASP with Components on IIS -- Working with Components -- Creating Instances of Components -- Using Server. CreateObject to Instantiate Components -- Using VBScript's CreateObject to Instantiate Components -- Creating Objects with the