Members of the Federation provide simple CGI's on a server they own, programmed in whatever language they prefer, which responds at the URL specified with Fedwiki Page Json.
This is an example of:
A proposal to create hosting infrastructure that we give to students to code restful Web services in any programming language.
The basic idea behind Literate Wiki is for a wiki page to describe and document a software program as well as to extract the code that is described.
The wiki-client has the responsibility to check the returned JSON for validity, and if it passes it uses it to add items to the current wiki-page.
Here we outline some provisional notes on authenticating RESTful Web Service's in Fedwiki.
A site-owner is able to double-click and edit the text of the plugin - providing a URL to a RESTful Web Service, and optionally some data to POST.