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Remote scripting with
JavaScript and ASP
Credits: This tutorial contributed by DevArticles.com. Please see footnote for more info. Posted Mar 22nd, 2002
One of the things I like about CarPoint
is that when you choose the make of car you're after from one list, all of
the models for that make of car automatically appear in a list on the same
page without any page refreshing. I was curious as to how NineMSN
accomplished this, so I decided to investigate and delve into the world of
remote scripting technologies.
Remote scripting is an extremely powerful feature available in both
Netscape Navigator (4.x and above) and Internet Explorer (4.x and above).
It allows us to use a combination of scripting languages to call server
side ASP code from client side pages. Remote scripting treats our ASP
pages as objects and allows us to use the object.method syntax to
reference the functions contained within them.
In this article we're going to look at how to setup remote scripting on
the client and server, as well as two cool examples to put remote scripting to good use.
You should have IIS installed on a Windows 98, NT, 2000 or XP web server
as well as SQL Server 2000 and ADO version 2.5 or above installed. You
should be familiar with JavaScript and ASP, and a bit of SQL knowledge
wouldn't hurt either. By the end of this article you should have enough
knowledge to implement your own version of the examples shown in this
article.
-Tutorial introduction
-What is remote scripting?
-Testing remote scripting
-Enabling remote scripting on the server
side
-Another remote scripting example
