Here is the history.....     in the beginning there was this thing called the "WOW gateway" (Web Oracle Web).   It was a cgi-bin that crudely translated a url into a stored procedure call (didn't use bind variables!!! that is why I call it "crude")....   It was written originally by Magnus Lonnroth of Sweeden.     This became OWA (Oracle Web Agent) in version 1 of OIS (the Oracle Internet Server).   It too was a   cgi-bin.       Later, with version 2 of OWS (OIS -> OWS, the Oracle Web Server), this OWA became a "cartridge" in OWS speak.   Like a module for apache but ran in the spyglass mosaic webserver (which is what we   used).     At that time, some guy named -- oh wait, that was me -- wrote this thing called OWAREPL   (historically archived here:       http://asktom.oracle.com/~tkyte/owarepl/doc/      ).   It greatly extended the capabilities of OWA giving it file upload/download, db authentication   and many of the features you take for grant...
 
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