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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:
- HTML files that use Forms
support to present a graphical user interface (GUI) to the user;
- CGI programs that act as a gateway between the user and the Broker; and
- Help files for the user.
Users go through the following steps when using a Broker to locate information:
- The user issues a query to the Broker.
- The Broker processes the query, and returns the query results to the user.
- 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