Variable Scope and Concurrency
Like many other server-side web technologies, Active Server Pages (ASP) follows the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) stateless model. HTTP is the foundation of data communication on the World Wide Web. It is a stateless protocol, which means that each request made by a client to the server is independent and unrelated to previous requests. The server does not retain any information about the client’s previous requests, and each request is processed in isolation.
Statelessness in HTTP has some important implications:
- No client context: The server does not keep track of the client’s state between requests. Each request contains all the necessary information for the server to process it.
- Scalability: Stateless protocols are more scalable because servers do not need to maintain client state, allowing them to handle many concurrent requests without memory overhead.
- No inherent session management: Since no session management...