What is WAIS?
WAIS works on the client/server principle. A WAIS client program enables the user's computer to contact a WAIS server, submit a search query, and receive a response to that query.
![[Diagram of a user computer sending a
query to a WAIS server, and the WAIS server sending back a response]](images/wais03.gif)
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