May iterate to follow multiple indirections, and to obtain multiple records. Service formats the reply for the client. The data needs to be reformatted, either to translate from DB record format to client format, or because multiple formats have been obtained, or because a single composite reply must be constructed from multiple hits. An error has occrred. This definitely mitigates against much iteration and translation, and in favor of effective caching.
Client interprets the reply.
This directory contains several compressed tar files. This file contains the patches and source code to provide a very basic handle resolution service for Mosaic 2.4. This version of the software attempts to connect to only the first URL returned by the Handle Server. If that URL does not work, no further attempts to use other URLs are performed. This version of the software will randomly order the URLs returned by the Handle Server.