New website extensions

kamzee · #1 Mar 31, 2009, 02:41 PM

Hi i have been recently noticing websites with the extensions

http://anywebsite/Home.aspx or personal.ashx

why have they got these extensions when normally it was html extesion at the end has there been a change ??? what is with the .ashx or aspx eg

eg before http://anywebsite/Home.html but now it is http://anywebsite/Home.aspx

but now the other extensions on some websites please can someone clear this up thanks

thanks

kbjr14 · May 10, 2009, 10:50 PM

this has to do with server-side scripting. asp is Active Server Pages. its a .NET based scripting language. some server-side scripting languages include ASP, PHP, ColdFusion, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc...

for more info, go to Server-side scripting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



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