References in traditional ASP

Question

Hello,

I got tossed into some maintenance work on a traditional ASP (note: NOT ASP.NET) page. This page has a line that looks like this at the top:

<object RUNAT="server" PROGID="findasp.Search" id="objFind"></object> 

The body of the asp page then has something that looks like this:

<form ACTION="search.asp" METHOD="post" ID="frmSearch" NAME="frmSearch">    
  <% objFind.Display "", "" %> 
</form>

What is the world is this doing? It looks like it is calling the Display function. This function than spits out some HTML. From my guess, the Display function is defined through the objFind object. However, I can't find how objFind is defined or where it is defined.

Can someone please give me some advice? I have no clue where to go with this at this point.

Thank you!

Answer 1

The code is using a server side object - this would be a com object with the name (PROGID) findasp.Search assigned to the variable (id in the tag) objFind.

This com object seems to define a Display function, however without knowing more about findasp.Search there isn't much more I can tell.