The components of the proxy architecture

The following section deals with the components of the secure World Wide Web architecture using Plasma and a proxy and describes their responsibilities. The separate components are Plasma itself as a server process on the client and server side, an application of Plasma on both sides which is capable of calling the application independent interface functions, the proxy on the client side and the CGI programs on the server side which transfer the data from the web server in their defined states to Plasma. An overview of the components used in the proxy architecture is given in Figure .