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In addition to serving HTML documents, your server can run programs that interact with clients. These applications that run on the server are called server-side applications. Client-side applications are downloaded to the client and run on the client machine.
Your server can run these types of server-side applications:
This chapter describes how to install Java applets, CGI programs, and JavaScript applications onto your server. Plug-ins extend or replace your server's features. For example, you can use plug-ins to provide a different way to control access or to log in.
For information on writing and installing plug-ins, see the Novell Developer Kit Web site.
Additionally, your server can send server-side JavaScript programs to clients.This chapter deals mainly with the installation and configuration of server-side programs.
This chapter also describes the steps for specifying a default query handler CGI program. A query handler processes text sent to it via the ISINDEX tag in an HTML file.
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