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

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
  • 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
  • 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 (libjpeg frontend)
  • image/png
    *.PNG
    external convertor
  • convert (from ImageMagick package)
  • auido/mpeg
    *.MP3
    external player
  • mpg123 ;-)
  • auido/x-mpegurl
    *.MP3
    external player
  • mpg123 ;-)
  • auido/x-scpls
    *.MP3
    external player
  • mpg123 ;-)
  • 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
  • any other mime type optional
  • add your viewer of any mime type to /PREFIX/share/arache/mime.conf
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