List of standards supported by 16-bit Arachne for DOS List of standards supported by 16-bit Arachne for DOS

Standard Status Comment
http: built-in
  • http://[user:pass@]servername[:port][/doc]
  • 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]@]servername[:port]]
  • smtp: built-in
  • smtp:[//[HELO@]servername[:port]][/loc_file]
  • finger: built-in
  • finger://[user@]servername[:port][/user]
  • gopher: built-in
  • gopher://servername[:port][/selector]
  • this archaic protocol is implemented only partly
  • ftp: built-in
  • ftp://[user[:pass.]@]servername[:port][/path]
  • upload, download, ascii/binary, anonymous/authenticated, graphical browsing of directories
  • telnet: APM
  • telnet:[//servername]
  • starts program asociated with "external/telnet"
  • irc: APM
  • irc:
  • starts program asociated with "external/irc"
  • file: built-in
  • file:[//][/dos_disk|]local_filename
  • find: built-in
  • find:keywords
  • automaticaly generates http based Altavista query
  • 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, nested font attributes, resized images, non breaking sections, ISO-Latin-1 entities, <EMBED> tag, delayed redirection, etc. <BUTTON> tag, etc.
  • text/plain
    *.TXT
    built-in
  • can view up to cca 48000 lines in files of maximum size cca 3 MB
  • text/css
    *.CSS
    built-in
  • subset of Cascading Style Sheets 1.0 specification
  • both inline and externaly linked stylesheets
  • image/gif
    *.GIF
    built-in
  • interlaced GIFs
  • transparent GIFs (GIF89a)
  • animated GIFs (GIF 89a)
  • *.BMP partly
  • only truecolor BMP fast preview
  • image/jpeg
    *.JPG
    external convertor
  • DJPEG.EXE -
  • high quality conversion to BMP (or 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)
  • read documentation
  • audio/x-mpeg
    *.MP3
    APM
  • QV.EXE by Multimediaware
  • DOS shareware player of AVI, MOV and MP3 (!), for 80386 or better.
  • 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
    *.ASF
    *.ACF
    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.
  • ACF files are Arachne Profiles.
  • ASF files are Arachne Script files.
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