Welcome to the Sun ONE Active Server Pages Ten-Step Tour! If you're interested in Active Server Pages (ASP), you're interested in building Web applications. One of the basic functions of Sun ONE Active Server Pages is to gather information from a user through an HTML form. Click Show Me and then enter your name. When you click Enter on the form, the contents of the field are passed to an ASP page named accept.asp.

The Web server passes processing of all pages having the .asp file name extension to the Sun ONE Active Server Pages Server. The results of script in accept.asp are returned from the server as pure HTML and replace the contents of the bottom frame.

If a user views the source of accept.asp with a Web browser, the user sees only the standard HTML code that the accept.asp script generated. Only by viewing the actual script file (without accessing it through the Web server) can you see the ASP code. The View ASP Source button used later in this tour calls an ASP script that grabs and displays the source code of the requested .asp page.