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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