Active Server Pages

This section tells how to build query forms with Active Server Pages (.asp files), through which you can capture the power and flexibility of ActiveX scripting. Queries created with .asp files allow you to leverage scripting languages such as Microsoft® Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) and Microsoft® JScript to add flexibility in displaying query results.

This section contains:

Query Object: Lists and describes query object properties and methods.
Utility Object: Lists and describes utility object properties and methods.
.Asp Examples: Shows sample code to help build queries with query-object properties and methods.

Index Server gives you the flexibility of creating queries in one of three ways:

Write .idq and .htx files, as explained on the Internet Data Query Files and HTML Extension Files pages.
Run SQL queries along with ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), as explained on the SQL Extensions to Index Server page.
Write Active Server Pages (.asp files) with ActiveX scripting.

The server-side object (SSO) is the result of the integration of Index Server with ActiveX scripting. ADO control lets you gain access to databases that offer an OLE-DB interface. Internally, Index Server uses OLE-DB row sets to access query results.

SSO is independent of HTML extension (.htx) files. Also, you cannot administer Index Server through SSO.

Note If your site receives large numbers of simultaneous queries, you should create query forms with .idq, .htx, and .htm files (rather than .asp files) for the quickest response time.