Response Object

Response object of ASP is related to sending response from the server to the client.

Methods

Method	Description
AddHeader	Add and set the HTTP header with "header name" to "value"
AppendToLog	Append "a string" to the end of the serer log entry for the HTTP request
BinaryWrite	Write or Send "the information" to the HTML output directly without carrying out any character-set conversion.
Clear	Clear the buffered HTML output
End	End the interpretation process by stopping the further processing the .asp file and returning the completed result to the HTML output
Flush	Flush the buffered HTML output by sending the output immediately
Redirect	Redirect the HTTP request to "a specified URL" by sending a moved HTTP header to the client
Write	Write "the specified string" to the HTML output

Properties

Property	Description
Buffer	Set a flag to indicate whether the HTML output is buffered or not
CacheControl	Set the value of the Cache-Control header to indicate whether the proxy servers or other cache mechanism can cache the HTML output
Charset	Append the name of character set to the charset parameter to specify the character encoding for the browser.
CodePage	Set the value of code page for the data of response in the intrinsic objects to specify the character encoding for different languages in the server
ContentType	Set the value of content-type header to specify the content type of the HTTP response
Cookies (collection)	Add or set the value of a cookie
Expires	Set the length of the time in minutes that the HTML page can be cached on the browser to calculate the absolute expires time according to the time on the server for the HTTP Expires header.
ExpiresAbsolute	Set the date and time that the HTML page to be expired on the browser for the HTTP header
IsClientConnected	A read only property to indicate whether the conncection to the server has been reset by the client or not
LCID	Set the value of LCID for the data of response output to specify the format of dates, times, and currency for different geographical locale for the server
PICS	Set the value of PICS label for the pics-label header to specify the content rating.
Status	Set the value of the status line returned by the server to the client

Remarks

The methods and properties of ASP response object can be grouped into

Web Server
- Server log: AppendToLog
ASP Control
- Encoding: CodePage; LCID;
- Buffer control: Buffer; Clear; Flush;
- Stop script processing: End;
- ReadOnly flag: IsClientConnected
HTTP Header
- Moved to a specified URL: Redirect
- Send a status line: Status
- Add new header: AddHeader
- Set value of standard header: CacheControl; Charset; ContentType; Expires; ExpiresAbsolute; PICS;
- Set value of Collection: Cookie
HTML Content
- Direct data Output: BinaryWrite;
- Encoded Output: Write

©sideway

ID: 120100031 Last Updated: 1/30/2012 Revision: 0 Ref:

References

Active Server Pages, , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa286483.aspx
ASP Overview, , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms524929%28v=vs.90%29.aspx
ASP Best Practices, , http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc939157.aspx
ASP Built-in Objects, , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/ms524716(v=vs.90).aspx
Response Object, , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms525405(v=vs.90).aspx
Request Object, , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms524948(v=vs.90).aspx
Server Object (IIS), , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms525541(v=vs.90).aspx
Application Object (IIS), , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms525360(v=vs.90).aspx
Session Object (IIS), , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms524319(8v=vs.90).aspx
ASPError Object, , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms524942(v=vs.90).aspx
ObjectContext Object (IIS), , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms525667(v=vs.90).aspx
Debugging Global.asa Files, , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa291249(v=vs.71).aspx
How to: Debug Global.asa files, , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms241868(v=vs.80).aspx
Calling COM Components from ASP Pages, , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms524620(v=VS.90).aspx
IIS ASP Scripting Reference, , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms524664(v=vs.90).aspx
ASP Keywords, , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms524672(v=vs.90).aspx
Creating Simple ASP Pages, , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms524741(v=vs.90).aspx
Including Files in ASP Applications, , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms524876(v=vs.90).aspx
ASP Overview, , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms524929(v=vs.90).aspx
FileSystemObject Object, , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z9ty6h50(v=vs.84).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms675944(v=vs.85).aspx, , ADO Object Model
ADO Fundamentals, , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms680928(v=vs.85).aspx