20.1 Accessing Hyper-G servers with WWW clients

Because of the very high distribution of WWW client programs, it is obvious that Hyper-G access with WWW clients is a key issue. In order to offer Hyper-G functionality to an enormous number of users, a gateway program has been developed which is installed with
every Hyper-G server. This gateway handles requests from WWW clients acting as a protocol converter and creates a WWW representation of Hyper-G ``on the fly.'' In fact, the gateway program is in a sense a WWW server since it meets two requirements:

It talks the client-server protocol used by WWW when communicating with clients.
It can provide documents in formats used by WWW.

The difference from a usual WWW server is that the gateway does not retrieve resources from a simple file system, but has a Hyper-G server as its back-end database.

20.1.10 Customizing the WWW gateway

20.1.1 Providing connection-oriented access with a connectionless

20.1.3 The menu line

20.1.4 Collection lists

20.1.5 Documents

20.1.6 Searching

20.1.7 The options menu

20.1.8 Annotations and references

20.1.9 Insertion of new collections and documents