Beginners ASP

Response Object

The response object is used to send output from the client to the server .
Collections

Collection	description
Cookies	a collection which contains the values of all the cookies sent to the client

Properties

 

Property	Description
Buffer	On by default (True) . This specifies whether the output is held in a buffer until all scripts in an ASP page are processed. This must be set at the very start of an ASP page before all HTML tags.
CacheControl	set this to Public to allow proxy servers to cache the page , Private prevents this from happening
Charset	Sets the name of the character set (like "ISO-LATIN-7") to the HTTP content type header
ContentType	specifies the content type as a standard mime-type . e.g image/gif
Expires minutes	specifies the length of time a page is valid for in minutes
ExpiresAbsolute	specifies the date and time that a page expires
IsClientConnected	this checks whether the client is still connected to the server
PICS	creates a PICS header and adds this to the HTTP header.
Status	specifies the status sent to the client in the HTTP headers . e.g 404 Not Found

Methods

 

Method	description
AddHeader ("name","content")	creates a custom HTTP header using the values supplied
AppendToLog ("string")	adds a string to the end of a servers log entry
BinaryWrite (SafeArray)	writes the content to the current HTTP output stream with no character conversion
Clear( )	clears the buffered output when Response.Buffer is True . Use this to abort a page .
End( )	prevents ASP from processing the scripts on the page and returns the result .
Flush( )	sends all buffered content in the buffer to the client when Response.Buffer is true .
Redirect("url")	used to redirect a user to the "url"
Write("string")	used to write the "string" to the user .