> THX for the response. To clarify since my active server page > knowledge is pretty > much zero here is my issue.
I'm afraid that what you want to do probably isn't possible. I will try to teach you something about the architecture of ASP on IIS, and how it differs from Apache::ASP. In this context, ASP stands for "Active Server Pages". This is a Microsoft technology that allows for server-side scripting languages to integrate with the MS IIS web server. The most common scripting language used with ASP is VBScript, which is a varient of Visual Basic. JScript, a server-side JavaScript varient, and two different Perl implementations, PerlScript and PScript, also exist, but they are very rarely used in the ASP world. For our purposes, what "ASP" is is a common "way of doing things" (e.g. common embedded scripting delimiter syntax, common method calls, common sessioning system) that can be accessed by all scripting languages that use ASP. Architecturally, this looks like of like... IIS <--> ISAPI <--> ASP <--> ActiveX COM Scripting Object (e.g. VBScript) (Don't worry about what ISAPI is... it's like of like pure mod_perl, but worse. :-) ) Note that all of this is server-side stuff. That is, when a user connects to web server and requests a .asp page, the server "runs" the script within the .asp page to create HTML, which is then sent back to the user's web browser. Now, over to Apache::ASP... Apache::ASP is a cloned API implementation the "ASP way of doing things" such that you can use ASP conventions with Perl code embedded within the Apache::ASP page. It's similar to HTML::Embperl, but using ASP conventions. The embedded code within Apache::ASP pages is embedded _Perl_ code. Bottom line for your purposes: it's feasible to port PScript or PerlScript ASP pages from IIS to Apache and Apache::ASP, but not to port ASP/VBScript pages. And it's not likely that the ASP code that anyone is about to give you is ASP/PScript or ASP/PerlScript code. Sorry. Cheers, Richard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Dice * Personal 416 841 7365 * Fax 416 841 7364 ShadNet Creator * http://shadnet.shad.ca/ * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Occasional Writer, HotWired * http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/ "squeeze the world 'til it's small enough to join us heel to toe" - jesus jones
