The Server object includes one property and four methods. The property is ScriptTimeOut. It lets you control when the script processing should time out. The four methods are:

• CreateObject: creates an instance of a server component. You must have this component installed on your server.
• HtmlEncode: encodes a string in HTML.
• MapPath: maps the current virtual directory to a given physical directory.
• URLEncoding: URL-encodes a given string

In IBuySpy, we convert the user name to HTML with Server.HtmlEncode and then save the HTML stream in a cookie, for personalizing the next "Welcome Back" message:

  Response.Cookies["IBuySpy_FullName"].Value = Server.HtmlEncode(Name.Text);

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