For those of you unfamiliar with external dynamics, imagine taking the Active Template approach and applying it to LiveServer.
I strongly recommend against using this feature of LiveServer, if for no other reason than a philosophical one. It's hard for me to come up with a realistic scenario where external dynamics are needed. Do you really need to use 2 different scripting languages on a single page? If LiveServer doesn't do what you need, and ASP does, why are you publishing the file into LiveServer in the first place? Is it because you want to be able to search the ASP file? Fine, publish the ASP file into LiveServer but don't have LiveServer deliver the content. Sometimes people don't consider the possibility that LiveServer can index a file for search without being responsible with actually delivering the content. Is it because you want to take advantage of constraints or some other LiveServer functionality? Ok, then what is ASP doing for you? Can ASP be integrated with the LiveServer code through a web service or a simple include? Or is it because you don't want to migrate the ASP code? If the ASP code can be changed to LiveServer, that is usually a good option. It might take a little more time today, but the benefit is that you reduce the amount of code you need to maintain in the future. But just like you need to be careful with Active Templates, you should exercise the same caution with external dynamics. It is not a scalable solution. Think about what you're doing: LiveServer is creating a physical file, putting that file in a directory that is available to a web server, making a request for the file through the web server and then returning the results. That's a lot of processing for something of questionable value. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/RedDot-CMS-Users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
