Deploying New Technologies

More sophisticated deployment techniques can be adopted to overcome deficiencies in simple model

Intermediaries can provide functionality not available at client:

• DOI support
• XML support / format conversion
• Authentication

HTML resource

Web server

Web server simply sends file to client

File contains redundant information (for old browsers) plus client interrogation support

HTML / XML / databaseresource

Server proxy

Client proxy

IntelligentWeb server

Example of an intermediary

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