ASP

1. Short for Active Server Pages, an ASP page is a dynamically created web page that commonly ends with a .ASP extension that utilizes ActiveX scripting, usually VBScript or JScript code. The .aspx extension is used for Web pages that use Microsoft's ASP.NET. These pages are called "Web Forms", and can contain (X)HTML code as well as ASP.NET code. More information on ASP.NET can be found on the ASP.NET Web site from Microsoft.
2. Short for Application Service Provider, ASP is a third-party provider that handles and distributes your business data and customer data.
3. Short for Authorized Service Provider, ASP is a location that has been authorized by the computer manufacturer as a place that can service your computer.
4. Short for AppleTalk Session Protocol, ASP is a portion of the AppleTalk protocol that receives responses from commands sent over AppleTalk.
5. Term also used to describe ASP.NET, which is an updated version of Microsoft's ASP web development that takes .NET platform and brings it to web development.

• The official ASP.NET page is found at: http://www.asp.net/

Also see: AppleTalk, HTML, .NET, Perl, PHP, Protocol, SHTML