Web Client/Server Technology

WebCombo® is a novel Client/Server technology that allows a Web Client to generate dynamic content by performing selected computations on a small, local Web Server, rather than within the client itself. The results of such computations are displayed in the client document by means of relatively simple Javascript (Ajax) functions contained in a small library.

This approach has a number of advantages:

• Content can be generated by executing fast, efficient C code on the embedded server rather than slow, interpreted Javascript code within the Browser.
• The embedded server understands an expandable set of shell commands of arbitrary complexity.
• The commands can be written in C or in a simple scripting language such as Tcl, and are executed within a multi-threaded command interpreter.

In addition, the embedded client has the following features:

• The client can instruct the embedded server to fetch content of any type from anywhere on the Internet.
• Mashups of arbitrary complexity can be implemented without restrictions imposed by the host Operating System.
• All Web access is completely transparent and can be monitored and filtered as desired.
• Pages can be examined and edited via a set of Context Menu items within the browser.
• Fine-grained control over execution of Javascript code is supported.
• Both the client and the server can be controlled by a web browser running remotely.
• WebSockets are now supported as described here and here.
• Sample applet: