Can I return an .asp file instead of a simple html page filled with search results?

Asp pages are generated by web servers. This means, that your Apache or IIS web server will execute some script and output html results. Alkaline does not understand asp, thus you need to preprocess the page by the web server first.

In order for Alkaline to server asp pages, you have to use .aln files rather than a copy of the asp file or a local path, for example foo.aln can contain http://www.foo.com/search.asp instead of /home/public_html/search.asp .

You must also disallow template caching in Alkaline. This is either forced with the CacheTemplates=N option in the global.cnf file. The later is described in the Alkaline documentation at http://www.vestris.com/docs/alkaline/equivstruct-ct.html .