I just found out that everyone on the mailing list can get to the web page,
either via telnet or even e-mail. I include a document below that tells how
to use these two methods to get WWW information. I tried the e-mail method
to get the home page and it worked fine. Some of the URL types, like ftp's
may be trickier; read about how to get them. If you have forgotten the URL
for the Unicycling Home Page it is http://nimitz.mcs.kent.edu/~bkonarsk/.
Beirne
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Article 10217 of comp.infosystems.www.misc:
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From: rem@BTR.Com (Robert Elton Maas, author of the MaasInfo files)
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Subject: Single-FAQ: How to use WWW via e-mail and TELNET
Date: 20 Nov 1994 04:23:47 GMT
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HowWWW.txt = How to use WWW via TELNET or E-mail, by Robert Elton Maas
<rem@BTR.Com>, last edited 1994.Nov.19 0947 PST
If your local host has a local WWW (World-Wide Web) client such as
'mosaic' or 'lynx' or 'www' etc, you should use it instead of the
methods described below.
Table of contents:
* Using TELNET to connect to a WWW browser
* Getting WWW files via e-mail
* Other, somewhat unrelated, topics
*TELNET* If your local host doesn't have its own WWW client, but DOES
provide outgoing TELNET service, and your local host or terminal
emulator provides VT100 compatibility, then you can use TELNET to
connect to a public WWW client ("browser"). Currently there are three
that I've found to be working correctly for all my purposes. Below are
the connection and login procedures for each, using Unix notation. On
non-Unix systems you might need to use a slightly different syntax or
pull down a menu or click a button etc. to start TELNET and select the
host.
telnet fatty.law.cornell.edu
Login: www
telnet info.funet.fi
Login: www
Select interface (return for back to main menu) ? lynx
telnet www.edu.tw
Login: www
After you get that far, follow instructions until you see the initial
WWW screen, which will mostly contain local information related to the
default WWW server used at that particular host, then press the 'g' key
and type in (or paste in if you're on a Macintosh or other suitable
computer) the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) for the WWW frame you
really want to see.
*EMAIL* If your local host doesn't even have TELNET with VT100
capability, but does have e-mail, you can obtain WWW files via e-mail
as follows:
mail listproc@www0.cern.ch
www <URL>
where <URL> is the URL you want to see. You'll get back the file
processed for a scrolling terminal, with [number] just after the text
associated with each link, then at the end of the message you'll find a
list of those [number] references together with the corresponding URL
being pointed to.
But currently it doesn't seem to work correctly for HTML files on FTP
archives (any URL starting with "ftp:" and ending with ".html") or
Gopher archives ("gopher: ... .html"), screwing up line breaks when
formatting such files. Also, all local references get trashed filename.
For example, both bugs strike when I request the HTML version of this
very file you're reading. Also, you can't get just part of a file this
way: Requesting just a section from a file gets a very long delay
followed by a completely empty return message. Fortunately all my files
are copied to Texas where they are available via HTTP as well as FTP,
so be sure to use the HTTP URL rather than the FTP or Gopher URL when
requesting any of the HTML-format files.
mail webmail@curia.ucc.ie
GO <URL>
where <URL> is the URL again. It returns the source of the HTML file,
then the UUENCODEd version of the processed image, with NO end-of-line
trashing but with no list of numbered URL references either.
For the moment, the only way by e-mail to get a correctly processed
'display' plus list of numbered references for it, from a HTML-format
file located on an FTP archive, seems to be to submit requests to BOTH
servers, then UUDECODE just the screen portion of
webmail@curia.ucc.ie's response and discard the rest, edit just the
list of references from the end of listproc@www0.cern.ch's response so
that all local references to have the correct filename, and append
those two parts. But that hassle is unnecessary for my files if you
just remember to get such files from the HTTP server in Texas instead
of one of the FTP or Gopher servers.
Other topics in other files, together with URL for each (watch this
space in upcoming weeks for another pointer or two, such as how to get
documentation for BITFTP & ftpmail):
* The master HTML-format online version of this document, which is
much more complete than this stripped-down plain-text version,
having pointers to other useful sources of general information about
network services that are accessible via WWW. If you have live
TELNET service, connect to any of the TELNET-accessible public WWW
browsers listed earlier, use the 'g' (Go URL) command, and feed in
this URL:
ftp://ftp.edu.tw/documents/Internet/MaasInfo/HowWWW.html
Do *not* feed that URL to the WWW-by-email service unless you want
to see a trashed reply. But if you have a local HTML-rendering
program, or you are willing to read raw HTML source yourself, feel
free to fetch this by FTPMAIL (see MailFTP.txt for info) so you'll
get the source as-is without attempted conversion on the way.
* A copy of that HTML-format complete version of this document,
automatically copied about once a day from ftp.edu.tw (hence NOT
showing any changes that occurred in the master version since the
latest copying), and available via HTTP so as to avoid the
line-break bug in the WWW-by-email service:
http://pip.shsu.edu/ftp/MaasInfo/HowWWW.html
Send this e-mail to get it properly formatted and mailed back to you:
mail listproc@www0.cern.ch
(No Subject field needed, will be ignored)
www http://pip.shsu.edu/ftp/MaasInfo/HowWWW.html
* The HTML-format version, but already converted for e-mailing
(warning, might be several days out of date because I do this only
once in a long while):
ftp://ftp.edu.tw/documents/Internet/MaasInfo/HowWWW.DisRef
('DisRef' = DISplay + REFerences) Use this old pre-formatted copy
ONLY if www0.cern.ch or pip.shsu.edu is down so you can't get the
copy on the HTTP server formatted on the fly for you, and you want
the info right now rather than waiting for the down system to come
back up, and you aren't willing to read HTML source yourself.
* How you can get THIS stripped-down text-only version, in case you
forgot where this came from and you want to get the latest version,
or you want to tell somebody else how to get it:
- master copy, always the very latest version, but often not accessible:
mail ftpmail@NCTUCCCA.edu.tw
open
mode ascii
get /documents/Internet/MaasInfo/HowWWW.txt
mail listproc@www0.cern.ch
source ftp://ftp.edu.tw/documents/Internet/MaasInfo/HowWWW.txt
- more-accessible automatic 'mirror' copy (up to a day old):
mail ftpmail@ftp.shsu.edu
open ftp.shsu.edu
cd pub/MaasInfo/
get HowWWW.txt
mail listproc@www0.cern.ch
source ftp://pip.SHSU.Edu/pub/MaasInfo/HowWWW.txt
- (Also occasionally posted in full to comp.infosystems.www.misc etc.)
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