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Re: Re ASP
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In one word, no. ;-) Now for an explanation.

ASP pages are just HTML pages with a different extension. When you install ASP, IIS/PWS is configured to filter pages with these extensions through another program, the ASP DLL. This DLL examines the content of the page, if there are < % % > brackets defined, it knows to pass the included code to a scripting engine (whatever is configured for the server, VBScript or JavaScript).

WebConnect works the same way. You install WebConnect and the necessary mappings are configured to send files with particular extensions to the WC.DLL wrapper program (you can also manually configure these). IAC, once the mappings are in place, when PWS/PWS receives a request for a file, it checks the extension and if needed, passes that file to the WC wrapper. The wrapper looks for the same < % % > delimiters and passes this code to the VFP run time engine to evaluate and VFP returns the processed text.

While I haven't worked with AFP, I am guessing it works in much the same way. Cold Fusion does something similar but it has its own META tags instead of the simple delimiters.

>So, are you saying that ASP- can't be configured to use VFP scripts ? without West Wind - or AFP.
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>Taken from IIS5 Help pages. '
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>You can use any scripting language for which the appropriate scripting engine is installed on your Web server. A scripting engine is a program that processes commands written in a particular language. Active Server Pages comes with two scripting engines: Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) and Microsoft JScript. You can install and use engines for other scripting languages, such as REXX, PERL, and Python.
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>If you are familiar with another scripting language, such as REXX, Perl, or Python you can obtain and install the appropriate scripting engine so that you can use the language you already know. Active Server Pages is a COM scripting host; to use a language you must install a scripting engine that follows the COM Scripting standard and resides as a COM (Component Object Model) object on the Web server.
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>This is what caught my eye,the ASP manual, tell you how to define the default language, of your site, and or change the default scripting language of a single page. Powerful Stuff, IMO , But reading it over again, it talks about installing Active-X scripting Engines... Does one exist for VFP ? or can it be as simple as making a com compoment of VFPs Runtime? and installing it on the machine. ? I can dream can't I ?
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>At this point, I just don't get it.. and wish I did.
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>thanks again
>Bob Lee
Larry Miller
MCSD
LWMiller3@verizon.net

Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning. -- Mingjiao
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