Basic Procedure of a Form and Response

The simplest technique used to gather data from a user deploys two pages, generally called the form and response pages. These pages are used as follows:

• The form page holds a complex of HTML <FORM> tags asking the user for information.
• The user fills in the form fields then clicks the submit button. Acting on that click, the browser sends the data to the server along with an URL to a response page.
• The server does two things:
• Opens the response page and sends the page (including its scripts) to ASP
• Fills the ASP Request object with all of the data the user entered in the form

• The ASP script interpreter runs the scripts, which extract and use the data from the ASP Request object to build the response page.

• ASP sends the response page it has built back to the user, generally containing information germane to the user's choices.