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Notes and sell it in India to make extra pocket money. “A laptop that goes for 20,000 in the US
would easily go for 35,000 over here, so even including the 14 per cent import duty, the
margins were good,” he said.
Today, Mr Rupa owns Hightechsolutionss, a consumer electronics store in Mumbai that
sells laptops, and is looking to expand his business. Unwilling to abandon his starting
point, he still sells laptops on ebay, but only high-end laptops, that would fetch him
80,000 to 90,000.
Mr Singh of Rediff said that consumer electronics, which includes mobile phones, audio-
video systems and digital cameras, is a large category, as is white goods, while traditional
categories such as gifts, apparel, flowers and books continue to grow. He added that
premium branded apparel for both men and women is also growing.
To make it easier for these individual sellers and SME entrepreneurs, ebay offers a service
called ‘eshops’, where the seller can get his own url, logo and content, and that link will
display only that seller’s products, according to the company.

13.6 Summary

 In ASP you can call a JavaScript procedure from a VBScript and vice versa.

 In order to develop complex interactive applications it is important to maintain state,
which browsers do with the help of cookies.
 Using cookies by browser is a method of maintaining information locally in the browser
and sending it to the browser whenever the user requests the appropriate pages.

 Cookies information is shared between the client and the server.
 The set cookie syntax is Set-cookie: Name= value; EXPIRES=date; PATH=path;
DOMAIN=domain; SECURE.
 The FileSystemObject object is used to access the file system on a server.

 The software that you install on your PC to send and receive E-Mails is called E-Mail
client. Once you have an E-Mail address, and a connection to the Internet, all you have to
do is choose an
 Page caching is an approach to caching where the entire action output of is stored as
a HTML file that the web server can serve without going through Action Pack.

13.7 Keywords

Cookies: Cookies are small set of information stored locally by a browser on behalf of a uses to
maintain state with server.

Expiry-date: It is the property that intimates the server how long the cookies will remain valid.
Post Office Protocol (POP)
Set-cookies Field: It is an attribute-value list that sets different properties of a cookie.
SSL: Secure Socket Layer.
TCP: Transmission Control Protocol.

13.8 Review Questions

1. In ASP you can call a JavaScript procedure from a VBScript and vice versa. Explain

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