Intermediaries

Paper on Intermediaries: New Places for Producing and Manipulating Web Content



• Introduced the term intermediaries
• Enable new functionality to be introduced to the web without extending the client or the server.
• Intermediaries can be implemented using proxies
• Intermediaries can be used for applications such as web personalisation, document caching, content distillation and protocol extension.
• Demonstration available using WBI (Web Browser Intelligence)
• See <URL: http://wwwcssrv.almaden.ibm.com/wbi/>

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