A system is shown that supplies web pages from servers (109 to 116, 301 to
305) to requesting clients (102 to 106) over the Internet (101). Each
server is configured to supply web page data to requesting clients. A
traffic manager (120) receives request data from browsing clients and
selects one of the serving devices for serving web page data. A data
manipulation station (125) manipulates request data or web page data. The
traffic manager supplies a function call to the data manipulation station
that includes request data or web page data using Internet protocol. The
manipulation station manipulates the request data or the web page data to
produce manipulated data and the manipulated date is returned to the
traffic manager.