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5.10 World Wide Web interface description

   

  To allow popular Web browsers to easily interface with the Broker, we implemented a World Wide Web interface to the Broker's query manager and administrative interfaces. This WWW interface, which includes several HTML files and a few programs that use the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), consists of the following:

Users go through the following steps when using a Broker to locate information:

  1. The user issues a query to the Broker.
  2. The Broker processes the query, and returns the query results to the user.
  3. The user can then view content summaries from the result set, or access the URLs from the result set directly.




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Darren Hardy
Mon Apr 3 15:22:37 MDT 1995