HELP! * GREY=local LOCAL HTML version of Foils prepared 18 March 97

Foil 18 Dynamic Web Pages --- Server Push

From Introduction to CGI Programming CPS616 Spring 97 -- Spring Semester 97. by Nancy J. McCracken * See also color IMAGE
A web server can return a sequence of replies to the web browser by running a Non-Parsed Header (NPH) CGI script, usually of the form:
    • nph-myprogram.cgi
It also uses a special MIME-type,
    • multipart/x-mixed-replaced
which allows each reply to replace the previous one on the same browser page.
The main part of the document is a container, which has boundary strings between the individual entities, each starting with 2 dashes. The final boundary string also ends with 2 dashes to terminate the entire container.

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