title: getting wordID from a hash table of another machine in the same network
body: <p>i'm working on a search engine, it is composed of an apache server, a crawler, a lexicon, and an indexer, all these machines are on the same local network.</p>
  
  <p>the apache server contains a cgi script that will retrive the query, parse it and the lexicon will convert the query into word ID using a hash map. the question is how can i get the lexicon to convert the query to word ID using the cgi script.</p>
  
  <p><strong>in other words</strong> : i want to get the wordID from the lexicon very quickly knowing that the lexicon is in another machine? </p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> how can i run another program from another program. of course without using SSH?</p>