Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 08/09/06 13:51

Andy Dingley wrote:

> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>
>> If there is no ASP processor to start the page, it won't be HTML.
>
> ASP pretty much is HTML,

Well, if you aren't really doing any asp processing, maybe so.

> barring the script fragments.

I suppose that since I always did processing, with the resultant HTML
issued with "Response.Write" - rather than simply renaming an HTML file
to an .asp extension - what we would see is different.

> It's not _labelled_ as HTML unless your Windows desktop has been
> configured that way, but that's a common enough scenario if you've
> got many of the M$ web dev tools installed.
>
>> It's been a few years since I wrote .asp, but my recollection is that IE
>> would just offer to "download" the file - on a computer without IIS/ASP.
>
> I've just tried it (on a desktop WinXP machine without any web server).
> IE7 saw it as text, Firefox saw it as HTML.

For me, changing a pure HTML file to extension .asp, both IE6 and
Firefox displayed it as if it were still an HTML file. That would not
happen with a real asp file.

If the file does no processing, there's no reason to use asp.

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