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| 2 | !set ini_color=#0000FF |
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| 1091 | bpr | 3 | WIMS (<font color="$ini_color">W</font>ww |
| 4 | <font color="$ini_color">I</font>nteractive |
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| 5 | <font color="$ini_color">M</font>ultipurpose |
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| 6 | <font color="$ini_color">S</font>erver) |
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| 32 | reyssat | 7 | is an internet server system designed for mathematical and other educational purposes. |
| 8 | <p> |
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| 10 | The Wims server is composed of a kernel program which is a cgi program |
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| 11 | (wims.cgi), plus various activity units called ``modules''. |
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| 5798 | bpr | 12 | </p><p> |
| 32 | reyssat | 13 | The client accesses the server via a http request to wims.cgi, with |
| 14 | parameters specifying the name of the module to request, the type of the |
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| 15 | request, and eventually parameters for the module. Upon request, wims.cgi |
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| 16 | processes the requested module, passing the user parameters to it, and sends |
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| 17 | the result returned by the module back to the client. |
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| 5798 | bpr | 18 | </p><p> |
| 32 | reyssat | 19 | A module may consist of a number of script files grouped in one directory. |
| 20 | These scripts are written in a special scripting language recognizable |
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| 21 | by wims.cgi. |
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| 5798 | bpr | 22 | </p><p> |
| 32 | reyssat | 23 | The script language contains also commands which allow it to call external |
| 24 | programs (especially various mathematical softwares) to make sophisticated |
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| 25 | computations. Such commands are processed by wims.cgi and sent through |
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| 26 | interface programs which filters the request, checks for security breaches, |
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| 27 | and sends back a filtered output. |
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| 5798 | bpr | 28 | </p> |
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