Help On Mosaic Version 2.6

If you have accessed this document from the Help On Version menu selection in NCSA Mosaic, you are using NCSA Mosaic for X version 2.6.

Version 2.6 includes the following changes from version 2.5:

Improvements

Inline JPEGs are supported.
mailto URLs are supported.
Improved Usenet support, including threaded newsgroup listings and article posting.
Common Client Interface now supports POST to server, SEND BROWSERVIEW and QUIT browser protocol functionality.
PostScript printing and saving optionally includes URL and page number as page header.
Minimal group annotation support. Set the annotationServer resource to the URL of your CGI annotation server.
The URL text field is now editable. Pressing Enter within the text field causes Mosaic to open the displayed URL.
Load to local disk can now be activated on a one-time basis by holding down the shift key while clicking on a hyperlink.
HTTP header Referer now contains a document's parent URL (for hyperlinks that are clicked-on with the mouse pointer, only). NCSA httpd 1.4 can log the Referer field.
HTTP header User-Agent now uses a slightly different format, for consistency with other platforms: User-Agent: NCSA_Mosaic/2.6 (X11; SunOS 4.1.3 sun4m) libwww/2.12 modified
resource *maxNumCCIConnect added to restrict number of cci clients communicating with the browser.
comment card for user survey introduced in this version.
Added additional entity support
On reload, added support for a cache proxy. If resource reloadPragmaNoCache is set, Mosaic will send an additional header notifying proxy not to use cache.
Added support for older NNTP servers.
Code has been Saber tested.

Information on other versions of NCSA Mosaic is here.

General information on NCSA Mosaic is available here.

Last Modified: 3 July 1995