List of standards supported by Arachne List of standards supported by Arachne

Standard Status Comment
http: built-in
  • http://machine[:port][/document]
  • version 1.0 - supports GET, POST, Basic WWW authentication and Cookies 1.0
    • mailto: built-in
  • mailto:email@address
    • pop3: built-in
  • pop3:[//[user[:password]@]machine[:port]]
    • smtp: built-in
  • smtp:[//[HELO@]machine[:port]][/loc_file]
    • finger: built-in
  • finger://[user@]machine[:port][/user]
    • gopher: built-in
  • gopher://machine[:port][/selector]
  • this archaic protocol is implemented only partly
    • ftp: built-in
  • ftp://[user[:passw.]@]machine[:port][/path]
  • upload, download, ascii/binary, anonymous/authenticated, graphical browsing of directories
    • telnet: APM
  • telnet:[//machine]
  • starts program asociated with "external/telnet"
    • irc: APM
  • irc:
  • starts program asociated with "external/irc"
    • file: built-in
  • file:[//][/dos_disk|]local_filename
    • text/html
    *.HTM     		built-in
  • can view up to cca 48000 tags or lines in files of maximum size cca 1 MB
  • supports subset of HTML 4.0 including forms, tables, both client side and server side image maps, frames, font sizes, non breaking sections, ISO-Latin-1 entities, delayed redirection, etc.
    • text/plain
    *.TXT     		built-in
  • can view up to cca 48000 lines in files of maximum size cca 3 MB
    • image/gif
    *.GIF     		built-in
  • interlaced GIFs
  • transparent GIFs (GIF89a)
    • *.BMP partly
  • only truecolor BMP fast preview
    • image/jpeg
    *.JPG     		external convertor
  • DJPEG.EXE - high quality conversion to GIF
  • JPNG2BMP.EXE - conversion to truecolor BMP
    • image/png
    *.PNG     		external convertor
  • JPNG2BMP.EXE - conversion to BMP
    • video/mpeg
    *.MPG     		APM
  • VMPEG (32 bit DOS application, 386+ CPU required)
  • works on any VGA card, author supplies lot of drivers for SVGA cards
    • video/
    x-msvideo
    *.AVI     		APM
  • QV.EXE by Multimediaware
  • DOS shareware player of AVI animations (!), for 80386 or better.
    • audio/x-wav
    *.WAV     		external viewer
  • PLANY.EXE (or SPKRWAV.APM for PC speaker)
  • test your soundcard, read documentation
    • multipart/*
    MIME V1.0     		built-in DGI
  • MAILMAN.EXE - conversion of messages to HTML
  • Multipart e-mail messages, supported transfer encodings: base64, quoted-printable, 7bit, 8bit
    • UUencode external utilities
  • Automatic detection of UUencoded attachments in mail messages
    • BINHEX APM
  • Mail attachment format used on Macintosh systems
    • any other mime type optional
  • add your viewer of any mime type to MIME.CFG
    • DGI
    *.APM
    *.OOK
    *.AH
    *.HTP
    etc...     		optional
  • Dos Gateway Interface - new standard by xChaos
  • add CGI scripts to your offline hypertext applications - see demo. (on CD-ROMs, etc.)
  • DGI description must be added to MIME.CFG file, as they are only "virtual files", not regular files saved on your hard disk.
  • Arachne Packages (*.APM, MIME type application/x-arachne-package) are powerful way to upgrade Arachne WWW browser
  • Netdos (MIME type application/x-netdos-exe) is scheme for secure launching of DOS executables downloaded from Internet/Intranet
  • OOKs are secure shortcuts to DOS applications
  • AH files means Arachne ehnanced HTML, not functional in other browsers.
  • HTP files are hypertext templates, designed to separate application code from user interface.
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