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From: cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Chuck Shotton)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.providers,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: ANNOUNCE: AppleWebSearch 1.0 Released
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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 14:21:13 -0600
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Version 1.0 of AppleWebSearch is now available for FTP from:
ftp://ftp.uth.tmc.edu/public/mac/MacHTTP/applewebsearch.sit.hqx

AppleWebSearch is a collaborative effort between Apple Computer, Inc. and
the University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center to provide a gateway
mechanism for making AppleSearch information sources available to others on
the World Wide Web. AppleWebSearch is implemented as a gateway (CGI)
application for use with MacHTTP and requires a version of MacHTTP that
supports the CGI file type and the "Search Doc" AppleEvent. This means you
must use MacHTTP version 1.3.1b1 or later.

AppleWebSearch supports two types of WWW client interfaces. The simplest
uses the <isindex> search arguments passed from a WWW client like Mosaic or
MacWeb to perform searches on an AppleSearch information source. There is a
more comprehensive interface available that uses fill-in forms to collect
search arguments from the user. To use the forms interface, you must access
MacHTTP and AppleWebSearch using a WWW client capable of supporting forms.
MacWeb and the alpha version of Mosaic 2.0 both support forms.

AppleWebSearch is invoked by MacHTTP in response to a client's request for
a particular URL. MacHTTP passes arguments to AppleWebSearch via custom
AppleEvents. These arguments are obtained from the path and search
arguments contained in the URL sent to MacHTTP. If you are unfamiliar with
path and search arguments, you may want to read through the documentation
and examples that come with the latest beta version of MacHTTP.

AppleWebSearch uses these arguments to perform search operations with the
AppleSearch server that it is connected to. The results are formatted into
a HTML document that is automatically generated by AppleWebSearch and
returned to MacHTTP (and then to the WWW client.) Much of the information
in the generated forms can be modified by changing TEXT resources within
the AppleWebSearch application.

Check the MacHTTP Home page for more details.
http://www.uth.tmc.edu/mac_info/machttp_info.html

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Chuck Shotton                             \ 
Assistant Director, Academic Computing     \   "Are we there yet?"
U. of Texas Health Science Center Houston   \ 
cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu  (713) 794-5650 \ 
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