The Windows NT Option Pack provides a platform for building Web applications for the Internet or intranet. Web applications can be delivered as a combination of Web pages that provide the user interface to the application and ActiveX components that encapsulate business logic and provide access to the databases where critical business information is stored. With Active Server Pages, you can create HTML pages with embedded scripts that are processed by the Web server instead of by the browser. With Microsoft® Transaction Server, you can create distributed applications that support transactions. With Internet Information Server, you can deploy your applications on a fast, easy-to-administer, and secure Web server.
Internet Information Server and Personal Web Server also support Common Gateway Interface (CGI) applications, Internet Database Connector (IDC) applications, and Internet Information Server Application Interface (ISAPI) applications. This section explains how to write ASP scripts and create ASP applications. It also explains how to write IDC applications.
Personal Web Server on Windows® 95 (or later) provides support for running ASP applications and supports the development of ASP applications. It is intended as a personal publishing server, however, and not as a production Web server. You can develop ASP applications for your own use, or you can deploy applications on a computer running Windows NT Server. For a richer development environment, consider using either Windows NT Workstation or Windows NT Server.
Internet Service Manager and Microsoft Script Debugger are application development and administration features available on Personal Web Server on Windows NT Workstation or on Internet Information Server. They are not available on Windows 95.
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