One thing that isn't mentioned here is PerlScript..which comes when you install activestate perl on a NT machine..PerlScript..basically allows you to embed a perl sub or script write on to a asp page like for example this i made up..which checks to see is a site is valid..as you can see very useful.....
<%
sub CheckURL {
# Subroutine to check that a URL exists
# Use the first argument of the function as the URL to check
$url_to_check = $_[0];
# Use the libwww Perl library
use LWP::UserAgent;
# Create a new instance of a libwww UserAgent in order to send HTTP requests
$ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
# Set the HTTP_USER_AGENT HTTP header for the request
$ua->agent("Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT)");
# Set a timeout for the HTTP request (in seconds)
$ua->timeout(3);
# Set a maximum size for the HTTP request (in bytes)
$ua->max_size(8192);
#Initialise the HTTP request
$request = new HTTP::Request 'GET' => $url_to_check;
# Set the UserAgent to receive HTML
$request->header('Accept' => 'text/html');
# Send the HTTP request
$result = $ua->request($request);
# Check the outcome of the HTTP request
if ($result->is_success) {
$url_status = 'Status OK: Ready for Download.';
} else {
$url_status = 'Status NOT OK: Sorry no longer available for Download. <a href="http://btm.dns2go.com">Delete from database</a>';
}
# Return a string with the status of the request
return $url_status;
}
%>
and place this one the page you what the result to appear.
<%
$Response->Write(CheckURL("<!Url!>"));
%>
as you can see i used a links 2 tag....I have links 2 generate asp pages...you have to change <% and %> in template.pl to someting else I used this <! !> and then you have the ability to use JScript visual basic and the compoments that come with IIS like Adrotar..
Admittedlamb.
