A MetaServer is a central broker providing a collated view (similar to a database view) for dispersed web resources. It is used to collect data from various web services, web pages, databases, or other online resources/repositories and then present the combined results to the client using a standard web protocol (e.g. HTTP with HTML, REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, etc.).

This article does not cite any sources. (July 2017)

It is proposed that this article be deleted because of the following concern:

No sources and no information, even from unreliable sources, could be found. Examples given also appear to not exist. (proposed by TripleZeta)

If you can address this concern by improving, copyediting, sourcing, renaming, or merging the page, please edit this page and do so. You may remove this message if you improve the article or otherwise object to deletion for any reason. Although not required, you are encouraged to explain why you object to the deletion, either in your edit summary or on the talk page. If this template is removed, do not replace it.

The article may be deleted if this message remains in place for seven days, i.e., after 22:44, 31 October 2025 (UTC).

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article so that it is acceptable according to the deletion policy.
Find sources: "Metaserver" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR

Nominator: Please consider notifying the author/project:

{{subst:proposed deletion notify|Metaserver|concern=No sources and no information, even from unreliable sources, could be found. Examples given also appear to not exist.}} ~~~~

Styles of use

Example MetaServer projects