Built in ASP objects - Active Server Pages Reference

The ObjectContext Object
The ObjectContext object is used to commit or abort transactions. For an .asp page to commit transaction, @TRANSACTION directive should be present in the script.

Syntax

ObjectContext.method

Methods

Description

SetAbort	Aborts the transaction initiated by the ASP script.
SetComplete	Declares that there is no reason for the transaction not to complete. So if all the components taking part in the transaction also call SetComplete method then the transaction will complete.

Events

Description

OnTransactionAbort	This event occurs when the transaction is aborted.
OnTransactionCommit	This event occurs when the transactional script's transaction is committed.

The Request Object
The Request object makes available all the values that client browser passes to the server during an HTTP request. It includes client browser info, cookie details ( of this domain only ), client certificates ( if accessing through SSL ) etc.

Syntax

Request.collection|property|method (variable)

Collections

Description

ClientCertificate	Makes us available a collection of values stored in the client certificate that is sent to the HTTP request. It is usually of interest when the client is requesting secure pages through SSL connection. But before using this collection the server should be configured to request client certificates.
Cookies	Makes us available all the cookies stored in the client browser for this domain.
Form	Collection of all the values of Form element in the HTTP request.
QueryString	Collection of variables which are stored in the HTTP query string. Name / value pairs can also be appended to the URL after the end of page name e.g. "http://www.stardeveloper.com/asp_request.asp?author=Faisal+Khan" contains one variable 'author' with a value of 'Faisal Khan'.
ServerVariables	Contains a collection of predetermined environment variables plus a collection of all the HTTP header values sent from the client browser to the server.

Properties

Description

TotalBytes

An integer read-only value which gives the total number of bytes the client browser is to the server with each request.

Methods

Description

BinaryRead

Retrieves data sent to the server from the client in raw format as part of the POST request. It saves all this data in a SafeArray.