Web Wrapper (WW)

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The Web Wrapper (WW) is a CGI script which front-ends Web applications and performs the following functions:

  • Authentication of users
  • Session management of logged-in users
  • Switching of the process UID to the appropriate UNIX UID
  • Logging of user access
  • Calling of the actual application: with no return to WW, or with a return to WW for subsequent URL adjustment

WW does all of this using an application table. The table allows applications to select the appropriate mode of operation for each WW processing step. Applications can share code in cases where they want to do the same thing in a particular WW processing step.

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