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The user logs in through a web browser and requests an online session

The server logs this request to a database.

The request is picked up by a [B]monitor/marshal[/B] application which spawns a lightweight (no user interfaces) 32 bit executable either on the same machine as the web server or on another machine on the same network.

The lightweight executable, [B]the runner[/B], acts as a dedicated webserver (not on Port 80) which services the [B]originating client[/B] and no one else.

The webserver serves up a basic DHTML/AJAX web page to the originating client and then steps out of the picutre.

From that point on until the online session is terminated all further interaction involves peer-to-peer communication between the [B]client[/B] and its correspondant [B]runner[/B]

Once the online session is terminated the [B]runner[/B] “returns” the non-80 port it was using to its spawning [B]marshal[/B] for reuse later to service another online request.