Explain the Browser Capabilities and Content Linking Component of ASP

**Ivann** · 12-01-2010

I have recently started to study ASP- Active Server Pages for developing web pages and web sites. This is a required subject for my academics. I have earlier studied HTML- Hyper Text Markup Language, but studying ASP is not easy. I am finding it quite difficult to grasp. I am unable to understand the concept of ASP Components. Can anyone explain to me the ASP BrowserCapabilities component and ASP Content Linking component and also provide some valid examples for it.

**kelfro** · 12-01-2010

To create a very simple yet efficient navigation system in ASP, the ASP Content Linking component are useful. A list of Web page which are to be navigated are stored in the Nextlink object. The Nextlink object manages these links of web pages. This Nextlink object is returned by the Content Linking component. It basically creates a file that manages relative URLs of each web page. Thus, Content Linking List file is referenced by the Content Linking component

**Modifier** · 12-01-2010

The visitor's browser information such as capabilities, version number and type are determined by a object known as BrowserType object. The information in the header is compared by the BrowserType object with the Browscap.ini file on the server. The User Agent header is propagated to the server when a browser connects to a server. The information of the browser is stored in this header. The BrowserType object is generated by the Browser Capabilities component of Active Server Pages.

**opaper** · 12-01-2010

Browser Capabilities Component syntax:

Code:

<%
Set Brwsr=Server.CreateObject("MSWC.BrowserType")
%>

Content Linking Component syntax:

Code:

<%
Set lnk=Server.CreateObject("MSWC.NextLink")
%>

GetListIndex Methods of Content Linking Component in ASP:
example:

Code:

<%
dim lnk,t
Set lnk=Server.CreateObject("MSWC.NextLink")
t=lnk.GetListIndex("HL.txt")
Response.Write("Count")
Response.Write(t)
%>

GetNextURL Methods of Content Linking Component in ASP:

Code:

<%
dim lnk,t
Set lnk=Server.CreateObject("MSWC.NextLink")
t=lnk.GetNextURL("HL.txt")
Response.Write("Forward")
Response.Write("The Link Address is: ")
Response.Write(t)
%>

**Reegan** · 12-01-2010

I also had tough time studying ASP and ASP.Net. The concept of ASP Components is a bit confusing but not that hard. Here is an example Browser Capabilities in ASP:

Code:

<html>
<body>
<%
Set Wb=Server.CreateObject("MSWC.BrowserType")
%>
The version of Browser is <%=Wb.version%><br>
End User platform is <%=Wb.platform%><br>
Support for Cookies is <%=Wb.cookies%> <br>
The Web Browser used is <%=Wb.browser%><br>

</body>
</html>

The above example will produce the output displaying the information about the client's Web browser and operating system.

**MindSpace** · 12-01-2010

The details of the web browsers are maintained in a database file. This file is referred as the Browsercap.ini file in ASP Browser Capabilities. THe details include information about the version number and also about the capabilities of the web browser. The default values of the browser are also defined by the Browsercap.ini file. Any number of browser property definitions can be declared with the Browscap.ini file.

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