# 5. Conceptual Overview

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## 5.3. Web & Internet Protocol Support

Virtuoso provides direct access to a number of Internet protocols through built in procedures. These protocols include SMTP, NNTP, POP3, HTTP, XML and many more. Combined with Virtuoso's native database and virtual database capabilities applications can be developed very rapidly from scratch or existing systems can be enhanced with a rich set of tools. An old customer table can be used to create a mail shot; a products table can now generate an XML file which can be converted to plain text and or HTML via XSLT which can be emailed to the customers every week automatically using the scheduler, or on request from a VSP page served by the HTTP server. The possibilities are endless and all these abilities are contained within a single server.

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