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| | intermediary - a Whatis.com definition |
 | | On the World Wide Web, the role of an intermediary is sometimes said to be no longer necessary as, for example, when you look up legal or medical information directly yourself or when you share files with other Internet users directly (see peer-to-peer). |
 | | 2) An intermediary is a program or set of programs that in some way evaluates, filters, modifies, or otherwise interjects some function between two end users or end-use programs (such as a client/server). |
 | | At IBM Research, a formal structure for developing, distributing, and managing this kind of intermediary has been created and is known as Web Intermediaries. |
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