Visual Basic Developers Guide to ASP and IIS: Build Powerful Server-Side Web Applications with Visual Basic. (Visual Basic Developers Guides)

Intelligent Agents

Intelligent agents are the final topic in Chapter 11, with emphasis on search and filtering agents. Intelligent agents are applied in a number of different ways; the application chosen for this chapter is a filtering agent that acts as an intermediary to UseNet sites on the Internet. The WebAgent is configured through a simple configuration file. It then autonomously gathers news using the NNTP protocol and presents it to the user with the HTTP protocol (acting as a simple Web server). The WebAgent is provided on the CD-ROM at ./software/ch11 .