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Unit 13: ASP Cookies and Caching

2. One of the challenges of writing applications for the World Wide Web has been inability Notes
of the web to maintain state. Comment
3. Explain why maintaining state is important to developing complex interactive
applications?
4. Did you know why cookies has no special significance? Give reasons
5. ASP is the tool you need if you’re looking for a way to pull together HTML pages, script
commands, and COM components. Examine
6. Data retrieving from a repository can be quite a “heavy” task from a performance point of
view. Analyze
7. The FileSystem property returns the file system in use for a specified drive. Explain this
statement with proper example.

8. The cache control property is your way of instructing the proxy to cache or not to cache.
Explain
9. Substantiate the pitfalls of Data Caching.

10. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Comment

Answers: Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
1. ASP Session 2. actual
3. ASP Request Object 4. destroyed

5. NAME=value 6. HTTP
7. Message 8. GetFileName
9. CopyFolder 10. GetAbsolutePathName
11. GetSpecialFolder 12. Microsoft Exchange
13. Command 14. application lifecycle

15. cached

13.9 Further Readings

Books Bob Reselman, Active Server Pages 3.0 by Example, Que Publishing
David Buser, Chris Ullman, Brian Francis, Dave Sussman, Beginning Active
Server Pages 3.0, John Wiley & Sons
Duane Wessels, Web caching, O’Reilly Media
Simon St. Laurent, Cookies, (Paperback), Computing Mcgraw-Hill.

Online links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email
http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/

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