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### 11.1 Plot Service

The plot server supports interactive plots that can be viewed and navigated using HTTP requests. A plot is specified with a URL, corresponding to an invocation of one of the `plot2*` commands, that specifies a plot, and uses a service API that can be used by client-side javascript to display and update a plot image in response to user navigation actions such as mouse drag and wheel gestures. The effect is of an interactive plot in a web browser that can be navigated with the mouse in exactly the same way as a STILTS or TOPCAT interactive plot.

To see this in action, run

       % stilts server

point your browser at the URL displayed and follow the links to see some interactive plots.

The following subsections give some more details about how this works and how it can be used.

- 11.1.1 Usage
- 11.1.2 RESTful API
- 11.1.3 Caching and Performance

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STILTS - Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library Tool Set
Starlink User Note256
STILTS web page: http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stilts/
Author email: m.b.taylor@bristol.ac.uk
Mailing list: topcat-user@jiscmail.ac.uk