15 Minute Series What is WAIS?


WAIS works on the client/server principle. A WAIS client program enables the user's computer to contact a WAIS server, submit a search query, and receive a response to that query.

[Diagram of a user computer sending a query to a WAIS server, and the WAIS server sending back a response]




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