ntains either a direct or proxy connection to the Internet. Firms can minimize modem-pool and long-distance costs by placing a gateway Notes server on the Internet.
On the workstation, you retrieve a page off the Web by requesting a uniform resource locator (URL). The Web Navigator translates the HTML document into a Notes document and stores it inside the database. Once the page is in Notes, you can view it, copy it to a private folder, mail it, or paste it as a doclink in another document. The Navigator is replicable like any other Notes database, but you'll need a client version coming this summer
to browse the Web via a remote PPP or SLIP dial-up.
The Navigator supports fill-out Web forms, turning them
into Notes forms
that submit data back to the Internet server. Responses are stored in each user's private folder in the Web Navigator database. You can create Web Tour documents that contain saved history lists of previously opened pages and generate ratings documents that display your and your coworkers' favorites.
Notes servers have supported TCP/IP since release 2.0. This release contains enhancements to make replication across the Internet easier. With Notes 4.0, you can give users and servers unauthenticated access to a server. The administrator can use the name "anonymous" in access-control lists and then assign reader access to anonymous users. This lets companies publish information on public databases.
The Notes Network Information Center (NIC) server is a home page for Notes users where you can register servers in a national name-and-address database
that you can download and use to map Notes server names to IP addresses. Adding a server connection document for the remote site is as easy as clicking on Connections in the Personal Address Book's navigation pane and filling in three fields.
Notes 4.0's server pass-through feature gives administrators great flexibility in providing authenticated access to intranets behind a Notes-based firewall. To further enhance security, you can enable network data encryption on the pass-through server's TCP/IP port. Network data is encrypted only while in transit, and there is little impact on performance.
Taken together, these tools position Notes today where the competition hopes to arrive tomorrow.
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Notes 4.0's Web browser supports fill-out forms that get converted to Notes forms on the server.
Passing Notes on the Internet
