What
is WAIS?
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]](../images/wais03.gif)
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