> Does the PERL ASP module for Apache emulate an ASP engine?
ASP is a scripting host. It supports any language that will run under it.
Perlscript is just one of many lanauges that can use the ASP object model
VBScript and sever-side JavaScript being two of the other ones ). Under the
ASP model one can write a subroutine or create variables in VBScript and
have those functions or varaibles accessed in Perl. ASP itself is language
independent. For the diehard Perl hackers out there, modules like Win32::ASP
allow normal Perl CGI scripts to run under the ASP environment with no
changes. What's neat about ASP is that you can render a page using several
differrent languages so if can't work something out in VBScript you could
use Perl to wrap up the loose ends.
> Can I take ASP's that have been developed under IIS and expect them to run
> under Apache/ASP?
Apache::ASP ( http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Apache-ASP ) emulates ASP
with the help of mod_perl. This might be helpful if you need scripts to work
on IIS and Apache.
> As practical matter, would you ever implement/support an Apache web server
> running ASP's AND modPERL.
CPAN says Apache::ASP was last updated June 18th, 2001 which means people
are still interested enough in it to fix it.
> For the ASP fans, what is the single biggest reason for using ASP's?
ASP is a lot faster than straight CGI scripts. VBScript is a lot faster than
Perlscript. Compiled COM objects should be the fastest of everything.
Personally I'm using a lot of VBScript and COM objects these days.
- Ron
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