Computers: Software: WWW

WWW

Summary of Internet Tools
Archie, a search tool for FTP sites
- anarchie (for Macintosh)
BIND - DNS software
Boutell.com tools
Browsers
- browser checkup
- browser support programs
- Arena, a WWW browser with support for HTML 3.0 (tables, math, etc.)
  - tour
- Internet Explorer, from Microsoft
- Lynx, a text-based WWW browser
- Mosaic, a WWW browser from NCSA
- Netscape Navigator, a very popular WWW browser from Netscape Communications Corporation
  - FAQs
  - Handbook
  - BrowserWatch - plug-ins
  - Easter Eggs
  - Description of extensions to HTML
CGI scripts
- The CGI Resource Index
- Access counters
  - Count.cgi
  - Numbers for use in counters
  - WEB Counter
  - wwwstat and gwstat
  - Yahoo list
- cgi-lib, a Perl library
- FastCGI
- mod_perl, scripting for the Apache server with Perl
- PHP/FI server-side scripting language
- WDB - A Web to Database Interface
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
- Clients
  - Fetch (Macintosh)
  - NcFTP
- Daemons
  - NcFTP
  - WU FTPD
    - newsgroup: mlist.wu-ftpd
Gopher software
HoTMetaL, an HTML editor
HTML Verification
- Bobby
- htmlchek (source)
- W3C HTML Validation Service
- Weblint (source)
- Web Techs Validation Service
- Webtest Tools
HYTELNET
IANA - Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
Internet Archive
Libraries
- Libwww
Macintosh
- The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh
- Peter Lewis, author of FTPd and other WWW shareware
Marimba
Mirroring Tools
- mirror
- wget
MS Windows
- Stroud's Consummate Winsock Applications
- SlipKnot, a WWW browser for Windows users over a serial connection
- WinWeb, a WWW client for Windows
Perl
- HTML and WWW code from CPAN
- libwww-perl
Proxies
- Internet Junkbuster Proxy
SCG Software Archive
Security
- Security Concerns on the Web
- World Wide Web Security FAQ
Servers
- Apache HTTP server
- NCSA httpd
- W3 servers:
  - httpd
  - Jigsaw (written in Java)
- WebSite, a Windows-based WWW server from O'Reilly & Associates
- Classroom Internet Server Cookbook
- World's Smallest Web Server, about the size of a matchbox
Common file suffixes
Telnet
- BetterTelnet
- NiftyTelnet, containing ssh (technically not for use in the US)
url_get, a Perl script for downloading URLs
urlview, a script for viewing URLs in text files
USENET News
- INN - InterNetNews (FAQ, more)
- NewsReaders.com
- Rules for Posting to Usenet
- Usenet Software: History and Sources
- What is Usenet?
- Newsgroups: news.software.nntp, news.software.readers
VM/CMS web sites and tools
VOL 1.0, a multi-lingual WWW browser from Video On Line
VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language
Websoft, a collection of miscellaneous WWW software
WWWtar, a WWW tar file viewer
WWW Tools from CERN (archive) and NCSA

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Last modified: Tue Mar 6 13:21:31 PST 2001