Miraplacid Scripting Components

Miraplacid Scripting Components (MSC) is a set of Active Server components you can use from your stand-alone scripting applications and ASP pages (VBScript and JScript).
Miraplacid Scripting Components is the first third-party ASP toolkit with Unix/Linux support.
Windows and Unix/Linux versions have absolutely identical interface and functionality.
100% Microsoft IIS ASP and UNIX/Linux Chili!ASP (now Sun ONE Active Server Pages) compatibility.
You can just copy your ASP code from Windows to Linux and it will work!

Benefits:

1. Easy ASP-based websites migration from Windows platform to Linux/Unix. No ASP code modification necessary.
2. Test and debug web pages and scripts on user-friendly Windows testing environment, lets say Microsoft Visual InterDev, then upload ready-to-use scripts and pages to powerful UNIX/Linux production server.
3. Develop universal system-independent web server solutions.

Tips and Tricks:

1. If you need to create a sophisticated Chili!ASP application for a Linux server, we recommend you to install MS IIS server and MS Developer Studio on Windows2000/XP PC together with Win32 version of Miraplacid Components, debug the application and then just copy it to Linux server. You need to install MyOleDB (MyODBC) on Windows PC to access MySQL database (you use MySQL database on Linux server, aren't you?)
2. Use MCBlob component wherever you need to handle binary data like image, compressed file or Base64-encoded data. Need to save it to database? No problems!
3. Enjoy Microsoft Scripting! It's free and highly effective tool. We use it instead of Perl on our developer's PCs to process files, adjust remote databases and try tricky ASP code and components. It's easy to make a stand-alone script from your ASP code or vice versa.

Technical Info:

Currently supported platforms:

• Red Hat Linux version 6.2 or above + Chili!ASP version 3.6
• Red Hat Linux version 6.2 or above + Chili!ASP version 3.6.2 (Sun ONE Active Server Pages)
• Windows + IIS version 4.0 or above
• Windows + Windows Scripting Host or any COM-compliant software

Contact us about UNIX and non-I386 platform version.

Current version (2.0) of Miraplacid Scripting Components designed for Apartment threading model. Therefore, the best scope of their using is ASP page level scope.
Using components of version 2.0 in Application and Session scopes may cause problems with your ASP Server (IIS or Chili) productivity.
To learn more about ASP execution scopes, see your ASP Server manual.

Components: User Manual

The following Scripting Components are currently released:

• MSCCrypto 2.0 - SHAREWARE - protect sensitive information on your site using strong cryptography - trial period 15 days.
• MSCABImage 2.0 - SHAREWARE - protect your site from bombing by form-sending robots - trial period 15 days.
• MSCUpload 2.0 - SHAREWARE - upload multiple files from one form - trial period 15 days.
• MSCGzip 2.0 - SHAREWARE - add compression abilities to your ASP scripts - trial period 15 days.
• MSCExec 2.0 - SHAREWARE (Linux version) - run OS command or application from your ASP code - trial period 15 days.
• MSCBlob 2.0 - FREEWARE - the easiest way to handle binary data from ASP code.

Installation and Administration Guide for Components of version 2.0

Redistribution guide for software vendors