INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM FOR ALLOWING A GENERIC WEB BROWSER TO ACCESS SERVERS OF A PLURALITY OF DIFFERENT PROTOCOL TYPES

摘要

An information handling system enables a client computer device to access information located at a server computer device over a network between the client and server computer devices. The client computer device accesses the server computer device using HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and presents information received from the server computer device to a user of the client computer device using HyperText Markup Language software. The information handling system includes the network between the client and server computer devices, the network using a network transmission protocol other than HTTP and using a network data format other than HTML, and a transmission protocol converter which converts HTML/HTTP information sent out from or received by at least one of the client computer device and the server computer device, via the network, to the network transmission protocol and the network data format.