Maintaining and refactoring Classic ASP (ASP 3.0) legacy code eBook

As of 2020 there are still thousands of websites in the top million most popular sites running on classic ASP / ASP 3.0. Whether you are (put) in charge of a classic ASP site, a (former) classic ASP developer who needs to keep adding features to an existing classic ASP site, an administrator in charge of maintaining IIS servers that still have classic ASP running, or someone just interested in learning about how cookies, ORMs and sessions work on a low level, this book is for you. In it, you will get a detailed explanation on how to set up and keep classic ASP code safe, maintainable and dependable. Some of the highlights: – get your site running on your workstation and under recent versions of IIS – simple debugging of classic ASP code using Visual Studio – re-use code in ASP without resorting to includes – make classic ASP pass a PEN test – solving the SQL injection problem – using secure and HTTPonly session cookies in classic ASP – refactoring your ASP code into a multi-tiered application (Separation of Concerns) – scaling classic ASP using a web garden – integrating modern technologies like Redis and syslog into classic ASP – migrating classic ASP to a docker container