I have an ASP form which collects data into a MS Access database. This is used to collect information from 120 of my students. Last year I used a free host but this was utterly unreliable.
This year I am using a paid host. It's much more reliable but I'm still finding about 20% of students do not get their data saved to the database at all.
I am about to implement an online auction system similar to ebay. I am debating between two products. One is PHP the other ASP (PHP Auction and Rainworx).
I typically like PHP better, because I've noticed ASP always seems to turn up an error (even on professional sites), but the ASP system has more of the features that I need.
Can anyone tell me the pros/cons of ASP vs. PHP? My largets concern is speed. Is ASP fast? and is it reliable? I've heard something about the code breaks down over time, etc.
I have an app that gets a file from a web server. An ASP page is passed authenitication data (username, password) and a filename. The file is read and then output by the ASP page so the only response is the file I am requesting. The file I want to receive is XML with the major portion of it being a Base64-encoded block.
I use the Indy component TidHTTP to get the file:
HTTPClient.Request.ContentType := 'text/html';
HTTPClient.Request.CacheControl := 'no-cache' ;
Response.Text := HTTPClient.Get (TIdURI.URLEncode (URL)) ;
Problem is that more often than not, the returned file contains errors. In a 200k file, 2 or 3 characters are often munged. Occasionally I manage to receive the file without errors. Code: