The master URL

Each project is identified by a master URL. This URL is used to publicize the project. The master page at this URL has two functions.

• It is the home page of the project; when viewed in a browser it describes the project and contains links for registering and for downloading the core client.
• It contains XML tags of the form

  <scheduler>http:host.domain.edu/cgi/scheduler<scheduler>
  <scheduler>http:host2.domain.edu/cgi/scheduler<scheduler>
  

  that give the URLs of the project's scheduling servers. These tags can be embedded within HTML comments. The BOINC core client reads and parses the master page to find scheduler servers. If it is unable to connect to any scheduler server for a project, it rereads the master page.