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No, the web server (one tool) would instantiate another tool (e.g. python/ruby/arc parser) which renders the HTML page pipes it back to the server which sends it to you. You fill out the form, press submit, the web server passes pipes those parameters back into the python/ruby/arc parser which ... etc.

It's basically the model for CGI scripts.



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