[thelist] Determining if an ASP is really an ASP file

[Ken Kogler]

> I can't understand why some pages that are not obviously ASP
> still called .asp

I do that with CSS files sometimes. You might see:
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/default.asp">

It's still CSS< but I'm using some server-side VBScript that needs to be
parsed by asp.dll on the server before it spits out the CSS. For example,
part of default.asp could be:

-------------------------------------
  <%
  if currentPage = "contactUs" then
    color = "blue"
  else
    color = "green"
  end if
  %>

  TD.nav {
    background: <%= color %>;
    }
-------------------------------------

The code isn't "correct" by any means, but that should give you an example
of why someone would use an .asp extension on a non-asp page.

-Ken Kogler

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