Posted by Michael Fesser on 01/10/08 19:27

..oO(kofisarfo@gmail.com)

>I know ASP pages are handled by ASP.dll so when I point my IE browser
>at an "ellowhatsthis.asp" file it gets handled by IIS

Not necessarily. Other web servers are capable of parsing ASP as well.

> - or at least it
>did before Vista but another story for another time - but what I want
>to know is how Mozilla is able to properly handle my
>"notsheermagic.php" script without my having done any configuration.

The browser has nothing to do with that at all. The work is entirely
done on the server.

>It's a *good* thing but can someone please explain it - what's gone on
>behind the scenes?

Your browser sends a request for a particular document to a web server
and the server sends back a response, usually the requested document.
That's it.

How the document is generated, whether it's static or dynmaic, which
scripting languages might be involved and such things is of absolutely
no interest for the browser, which always only gets the final HTML code.

Micha

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