Hi I am looking for some help.

Some of the web sites I do have dynamic database driven pages that really don't change very often. So I thought that if I could create an asp script that would read the asp page and then from that produce an html page from this it would reduce the load on the web servers.

Bob

I don't really know of a script that will do what you want as such, but here's the pseudo-code of how I would do it:

1) Retrieve ASP page, all information.
2) Write all the HTML output to a variable.
3) Use FileSystemObject to create/replace the static HTML file with the variable.

ok so you'll write a script that runs the dynamic page and output it as HTML and you expect it to lessen the load??????

unless the pages in question opens dozens of recordset or builds a 3000x3000 element array without releasing the objects the difference will be absolutely negligable.
Save your energy and time.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

ok so you'll write a script that runs the dynamic page and output it as HTML and you expect it to lessen the load??????

unless the pages in question opens dozens of recordset or builds a 3000x3000 element array without releasing the objects the difference will be absolutely negligable.
Save your energy and time.

Thanks for the reply - possibly I didn't explain myself properly. This script would be run ONCE by the site administrator after the database is updated. Visitors to the site would only access the html pages - not the asp pages.

Bob

while it's a pretty simple script to write. Use a XMLHTTP object and spider the source code then as Adam says use the FSO to write the html file.
Not forgetting then to have a means to generate links to the files and keep this updated

Basically manual cacheing then?
ASP.NET has some very advanced caching options that you could utilize for this purpose...

Thanks guys, I will give it a try.