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WWW Information

Mosaic and Netscape for VMS

I have put together (and tidied up) various resources on VMS Mosaic and also keep a list of VMS Netscape bugs that I know of. There is also some information on our local browser setup for Mosaic and Netscape on the RAL PPD VMScluster.

Poor-Man's Listserv

Most browsers (eg. Mosaic and Netscape) will allow you to mail to multiple recipients. eg.

<A HREF="mailto:T.J.Adye@rl.ac.uk,adye@v2.rl.ac.uk">

By including one or more such lists (which could be very long) on a page, a user can select the desired mailing list. See the end of the OUSFG e-mail list for an example.

If Netscape 2.0 is the client, one can include a default subject with

<A HREF="mailto:T.J.Adye@rl.ac.uk?subject=Hi there!">

Netscape Internal Information

With the about: scheme in Netscape 2.0 (it seems not in 1.12 or before), one can obtain information about the

local disk cache (about:cache),
image cache (about:image-cache),
memory cache (about:memory-cache), or
global history (about:global).

among others.

It doesn't seem to be possible to use these from a Bookmark file or a link (probably a quite sensible security precaution), but one can type them into the Open Location query box by hand.

The idea was initially from http://www.c2.org/~aelana/javascript.html: click What is in your disk-cache? Whatsit doin?.

A full list for Netscape 3.0 is maintained by Vancouver Webpages.

Other Netscape Tricks can be found at Yikes!. I particularly like CTRL/ALT/T (X-Windows Netscape only?) for displaying the transfer status.

Server Scripts

JavaScript

Example of Netscape 2.0 security loophole (this doesn't do anything until to ask it to, so it's safe - if you are prepared to believe me!).
List mime types and plug-ins supported by your browser (requires Netscape 3.0).
A second attempt at a program to catalogue links in one or more pages (only works for files from this server; or, if data tainting is enabled, with lots of warning messages).
My first attempt (same restrictions - this one catalogues the links in a separate window).
Show JavaScript Objects.
Hint: You can type in JavaScript on the fly by entering it in the Location box with the javascript: scheme. Either enter your test Javascript code after the colon (eg. javascript:alert("Hi!")) or type javascript: to bring up a prompt.

Other Pages

My HTML and Java^(TM) test pages.
Some Unix/Netscape bugs I have found.
Transparent inlined images.
Some notes on converting from the CERN HTTPD Server to the OSU DECthreads HTTPD Servers on VMS.
A workaround to allow compressed postscript files to be displayed with VMS Netscape, which has a bug that prevents compressed files from being decompressed.
Disabling Animated GIFs in VMS (and others) Netscape.
Deja News Usenet Search. This page also allows you the possibility of saving a "canned search" (eg. in a bookmark or for use as a link from another web page).
AltaVista Translation Service.
Telnet to RAL PPD VMScluster (Java applet). Obviously you'll only be able to log on if you have an account here.

http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/Delphi/Adye/WWWinfo.html last modified 4th January 1998 by

Tim Adye, <T.J.Adye@rl.ac.uk>