ASP Objects

Property (pg 125)

Property	Description
scripttimeout	Length of time a script can run before an error occurs.

Methods

Method	Description
createobject	Creates an instances of an object or server component.
HTMLencode	Applies HTML encoding to the specified string.
mappath	Converts a virtual path into a physical path. (pg 128)
URLencode *	Applies URL encoding including escape characters to a string.

* NOTE: The inverse method, URLdecode, is not supported, but may be added separately.

Application

Collections	Description
Contents	Contains all the items added to the Application through script commands.
StaticObjects	Contains all of the objects added to the Application with the <OBJECT> tab.

Methods

Methods	Description
lock	Prevents other clients from modifying application properties.
unlock	Allows other clients to modify application properties.

Events (pg 132)

Events	Description
onstart	Occurs when a page in the application is first references.
onend	Occurs when the application quits, after the Session_OnEnd event.

Session

Collections	Description
Contents	Contains all the items added to the Application through script commands.
StaticObjects	Contains all of the objects added to the Application with the <OBJECT> tab.

Methods

Method	Description
abandon	Destroys a Session object and releases its resources. TIP: Using this on every page is one way to overcome Personal Web Server's limitation of 10 simultaneous sessions.

Properties

Property	Description
codepage	Sets the codepage that will be used for symbol mapping.
LCID	Sets the locale identifier.
sessionID	Returns the session identification for this user.
timeout	Sets the timeout period for a session state for this application, in minutes.

Events (pg 138)

Events	Description
onstart	Occurs when the server creates a new session.
onend	Occurs when a session is abandoned or times out.

Request

Collections (pg 85)

Collection	Description	Type
ClientCertificate	Client certificate values sent from the browser.	Read Only
Cookies	Values of cookies sent from the browser.	Read Only
Form	Values of form elements sent from the browser using the POST method	Read Only
QueryString	Values of variables on the HTTP query string (these can be values of form elements sent from the browser using the GET method, or they can be values appended manually)	Read Only
ServerVariables	Values of the HTTP and environment variables.	Read Only

Properties

Property	Description	Type
TotalBytes	Specifies the number of bytes the client is sending in the body of this request.	Read Only

Methods

Method	Description
BinaryRead	Used to retrieve data sent to the server as part of the POST request

Response

Collection	Description
cookies	Values of all the cookies to send to the browser. Each element of a cookies collection has four properties expires (the date & time of expiration) domain (the domain, based on the URL, of origin) path (a subpath of the domain, used to organize) secure (true of false)

Properties

Properties	Description
buffer	Indicates whether to buffer the page until complete. (pg 120)
cachecontrol	Determines whether proxy servers are able to cache the output generated by ASP
charset	Appends the name of the character set to the content-type header
contenttype	HTTP content type (i.e. "Text/HTML") for the response
expires	Length of time before a page cached on a browser expires
expiresabsolute	Date and time when a page ached on a browser expires
isclientconnected	Indicates whether the client has disconnected from the server (boolean)
PICS	Adds the value of a PICS label to the pics-label field of the response header
status	Value of the HTTP status line returned by the server

Methods

Methods	Description
addHeader	Adds or changes a value in the HTML header
appendtolog	Adds text to the web server log entry for this request
binarywrite	Sends text to the browser without character-set conversion
clear	Erases any buffered HTML output
end	Stops processing the page and returns the current result
flush	Sends buffered output immediately
redirect	Instructs the browser to connect to a different URL (pg 119)
write	Writes a variable to the current page as a string

ObjectContext

Used only when Microsoft Transaction Server is installed. (MTS is not installed in room 101.)
Methods

Method	Description
SetComplete	Declares that the script is not aware of any reason for the transaction not to complete. If all components participating in the transaction also call SetComplete, the transaction will complete. Overrides any previous SetAbort method that has been called in a script.
SetAbort	Aborts a transaction initiated by an ASP.

Events

Events	Description
ontransactioncommit	Occurs after a transacted script's transction commits.
ontransactionabort	Occurs if the transaction is aborted.