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VBScript Basics

ASP delimiters Response.Write Variables Option Explicit If statement Select Case For loop For Each loop Do While loop Functions

Request Object

Request.QueryString Request.Form Request.Cookies Request.ServerVariables Request.TotalBytes BinaryRead HTTP method User agent Client IP caveat Input validation

Response Object

Response.Write HTML Response.Redirect Response.Cookies Response.Status Response.ContentType Response.AddHeader Response.Buffer Response.Flush Response.End Cache headers

Session & Application

Session variable Session timeout Session abandon SessionID Application variable Application.Lock Application.UnLock Global.asa Session_OnStart Application_OnStart

Server Object

Server.CreateObject Server.MapPath Server.HTMLEncode Server.URLEncode Server.ScriptTimeout ADODB.Connection ADODB.Command ADODB.Recordset Scripting.Dictionary FileSystemObject

ADO Database

Open connection Parameterized command SELECT query INSERT command UPDATE command DELETE command Recordset iteration Transactions Null handling Close resources

Includes & Files

Server-side include file Server-side include virtual Read text file Write text file File exists Create folder Upload concept Path validation Template include Configuration include

Security & Maintenance

SQL injection prevention XSS output encoding Cookie security Session fixation mitigation Error handling Custom error page Logging Connection cleanup Legacy encoding Migration planning

Classic ASP / Session & Application

Session_OnStart

Learn Session_OnStart in Classic ASP with a dedicated explanation, topic-specific example, edge guidance, and mastery check.

12 min read • Intermediate

classic-asp-039.asp

asp

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript" RUNAT="Server">
Sub Session_OnStart
  Session("cartCount") = 0
End Sub
</SCRIPT>

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Application_OnStart