Network settings: Options
This chooser lets you select if you want AWeb to load images:
| All images
| AWeb will start loading every image as soon as it is encountered
in a page. This could consume a lot of bandwidth, especially if you are
using a slow connection.
|
| Maps only
| This option doesn't load all images, but only clickable maps. This
can save a lot of traffic, and still lets you use clickable maps, as these
are often essential navigation tools.
|
| Off
| AWeb will never load images automatically. If you want to see an image,
you have to click on its icon.
|
AWeb is capable of handling an unlimited number of parallel network
connections. You might want to limit this number to a reasonable maximum,
to avoid overloading your network line.
The status of all connections can be viewed in the
network status window.
Although you may have set the number of network connections to a reasonable
maximum, it could cause disk trashing when you try to load local files.
Disk trashing is the phenomena you may encounter when two
or more files from the same device are read simultaneously. Most of the
time the disk is busy moving its read heads to and fro, causing the speed
of data transfer to drop dramatically.
To avoid this, you can limit the number of local disk reads independently.
Local index
If the name of a local file requested ends in a slash (/), this name is
appended to the file name. This allows setting up your own WWW pages
locally without having to change the names.
This is the URL of your home page as far as AWeb is concerned.
It doesn't need to be the same as your home page on the WWW. It is merely
the page that will be shown if you select
Navigate / Home document from the menu, or click the
home button.
Start with homepage
If this checkbox is checked, AWeb will retrieve the page defined as your
home page immediately when you start the program. If
this option is not checked, you will initially get an empty window.
Browse anonymously
Normally, if you follow a hyperlink, AWeb sends the address of the page
that link appeared on to the server. This allows servers to generate lists
of back-links for interest, logging, optimized caching, tracing obsolete
or mistyped links, etc. Some servers, like chat servers, actually need this
information to let you get the page.
Because the source of a link may be private information, or may reveal
an otherwise private information source, AWeb allows you to disable this
feature. If the checkbox is selected, AWeb doesn't send this address, and
you are browsing anonymously.
As explained in the external
viewers section, most servers send the MIME type along with the data.
Unfortunately, some servers send the wrong MIME type if they fail to
recognize the true type of the data. This may lead to a file being saved
instead of passed to an external viewer as expected.
In those cases, it is best to ignore the MIME type as reported by the
server, and let AWeb identify the MIME type by the file name extension.
If this checkbox is selected, the MIME type as reported by the server
is ignored.
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