protonet:features
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Features
PROTONET is a service that allows browsing of classic web sites with a variety of web browsers. It is the easiest way to browse the Internet as it appeared in it's early days.
- Service supports a wide variety of vintage computers and browsers using standard proxy communication methods
- Get access to thousands of web sites from the early years of the Internet. Pages have been reconstructed for historical accuracy.
- Thousands of working downloads, and more added daily.
- Use restored historical search engines to discover new web sites.
- Access and browse restored FTP (File Transfer Protocol) archives.
Supported web browsers
Our services have been tested to work with the following OS/web browser combinations:
| System | Product Name | Version | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MS-DOS | Arachne | 1.97 |  | |
| Windows 3.1 (16-bit) | Microsoft Internet Explorer | 1.0 |  | Does not support proxies |
| 2.0 | | |||
| 3.0 | | |||
| Mosaic Netscape | 0.9 | | ||
| Netscape Navigator | 1.x | | ||
| 2.x | | |||
| 3.x | | |||
| NCSA Mosaic | 1.0 |  | Not Tested | |
| 2.0 | | Not Tested | ||
| 3.0 | | Not Tested | ||
| Opera | 2.x | | Not Tested | |
| 3.x | | Not Tested | ||
| Windows 9x (32-bit) | Microsoft Internet Explorer | 1.0 | | Does not support proxies |
| 2.0 | | Not Tested | ||
| 3.0 | | |||
| 4.0 | | |||
| 5.0 | | |||
| 5.5 | | |||
| 7.0 | | |||
| 8.0 | | |||
| 9.0 | | |||
| 10.0 | | |||
| 11.0 | | |||
| Netscape Navigator | 2.x | | Not Tested | |
| 3.x | | |||
| Netscape Communicator | 4.0 | | ||
| 4.5x | | |||
| NCSA Mosaic | 1.0 | | Not Tested | |
| 2.0 | | Not Tested | ||
| 3.0 | | Not Tested | ||
| Opera | 2.x | | Not Tested | |
| 3.x | | Not Tested | ||
| 4.x | | Not Tested | ||
| 5.x | | Not Tested | ||
| 6.x | | Not Tested | ||
| 7.x | | Not Tested | ||
| 8.x | | Not Tested | ||
| 9.x | | Not Tested | ||
| 10.x | | Not Tested | ||
| 11.x | | Not Tested | ||
| 12.x | | Not Tested | ||
| Macintosh (68k) | Mosaic Netscape | 0.9 | | Not Tested |
| Netscape Navigator | 1.x | | Not Tested | |
| 2.x | | Not Tested | ||
| 3.x | | Not Tested | ||
| 4.x | | Not Tested | ||
| Macintosh (PPC) | Netscape | 3.x | | Not Tested |
| 4.x | | Not Tested |
Server Development Status
| Type | Description | Progress | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HTTP | HTML GET requests | 100% | | |
| HTML POST requests | 0% | | ||
| Dynamic content: File Index | 100% | | ||
| Dynamic content: Server pages | 100% | | Error codes (such as 404 error) reported to the web browser properly. | |
| MIME types | 100% | | ||
| CGI scripts | 90% | | CGI scripts work but further improvements are needed in parameter handling. | |
| Search engines | 40% | | Partial functionality with Inode and Yahoo search. | |
| Page view counters | 0% | | Planned for a future release. | |
| HTML web chats | 0% | | In progress. | |
| News client support | 0% | | Planned for a future release. | |
| Multimedia streaming services | 0% | | Planned for a future release. | |
| WAP sites | 0% | | Planned for a future release. | |
| FTP | Services on FTP | 100% | | |
| System generated file indexes | 100% | | ||
| System generated pages | 100% | | Error conditions handled and presented to the web browser. | |
| MIME types | 90% | | MIME type reporting handled mostly correct. | |
| GOPHER | Services on Gopher | 0% | | Not implemented yet. |
| IRC | Services on IRC | 0% | | Not implemented yet. |
| TELNET | Telnet services | 0% | | Plans are for a future release |
protonet/features.1597448182.txt.gz · Last modified: 2020-08-14 23:36 by omolini
