From: SMTP%"mayer@ljo.dec.com" 30-NOV-1994 16:28:21.45 To: EVERHART CC: Subj: Re: VMS port of mosaic and proxies From: mayer@ljsrv2.enet.dec.com (Reality is a Matter of Perception) X-Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.users,comp.os.vms Subject: Re: VMS port of mosaic and proxies Date: 30 Nov 1994 21:04:51 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Littleton, MA Lines: 122 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3bipdk$mp0@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> Reply-To: mayer@ljo.dec.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ljsrv2.enet.dec.com To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com X-Gateway-Source-Info: USENET Marc (elsen@imec.be) wrote: > Does anyone know whether the VMS port of mosaic can be made > to use a proxy server ? You can now get Mosaic V2.4A from: ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/Mosaic or via annonymous FTP to gatekeeper.dec.com in directory pub/DEC/Mosaic Due to some missing files (src/PWD.H and src/VMS.c) in the kit people building it one VMS systems were unable to complete the build. I'm making the fixed kit available at the same location within a day or so. Danny o The difference between this version and the NCSA V2.4 is that the changes have been made to support VMS systems either on a VAX or on an Alpha system using UCX. There is some code in there for Multinet, but it is incomplete and I have no access to a system running Multinet TCP/IP stacks. o Also, if you use proxies you need to define in the Resource file the following resources: Mosaic*ProxyGateway: Mosaic*NoProxy: In addition if you are misusing file protocol point to a non-local URL you will need to set the following resource: Mosaic*FileProxy: I deliberately separated this resource from the others since this is supposed to be ONLY used for local files. o News is now correctly handled if ProxyGateway is defined o Mime types now have case-insensitive lookups. The changes will be fed back to NCSA for incorporation into their own sources. Enclosed is the README.24A from the release: NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System Version 2.4A ================================================ Welcome to NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System 2.4A! This README details most of the changes made from Mosaic Version 2.4 **************************************************************************** * Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois * * See COPYRIGHT for the University of Illinois's copyright notice * * * * DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE * * SUITABILITY OF THIS SOFTWARE FOR ANY PURPOSE. IT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" * * WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY. DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION * * SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED BY THE USERS OF THIS * * SOFTWARE. * * * **************************************************************************** In order to make NCSA's Mosaic for the X Window System available for VMS systems and to fully support proxies, I made the following changes to the code: o Added support to various modules to build on VMS Systems using DEC TCP/IP Services for VMS (aka UCX) o Added no_proxy support both as an environmental variable and to the resource file o Fixed mime type lookups to do case-insensitive compares o Fixed proxy code to use the NNTPSERVER environmental variable for deciding on whether or not to use the proxy. o Fixed proxy code to handle file protocol correctly. Separated fileProxy from ProxyGateway. Checked for localhost in override proxy code to ignore proxies for localhost when using file protocol. When using proxies, you can define the following resources in the Mosaic resource file (~Mosaic on Unix systems, DECW$USER_DEFAULTS:MOSAIC.DAT on OpenVMS systems): Mosaic*ProxyGateway: http://www-proxy.site.org:8080/ Mosaic*NoProxy: localhost, site.org IF you wish to use the file protocol through the proxy server, you need to define the file proxy resource separately: Mosaic*FileProxy: http://www-proxy.site.org:8080/ If you are not running a proxy server, then you should NOT define any of these resources. Note that www-proxy.site.org is the name of the host running the proxy server. site.org is whatever sites you wish to exclude from going through the proxy server. Bug Reports and Comments ------------------------ Bug reports and other comments can be sent to mosaic-x@ncsa.uiuc.edu. All questions about NCSA's Mosaic should go to NCSA. Specific problems about the modifications made to V2.4 to make it into V2.4A can be sent to mayer@ljo.dec.com Danny Mayer Internet Business Group Digital Equipment Corporation =============================================================================== Danny Mayer Digital Equipment Corporation Mayer@ljo.dec.com Littleton, MA 10460 ===============================================================================