W3C Line Mode Browser

The Line Mode Browser (www) is a character based Web browser developed for use on terminals. It is developed in C and serves as an example of a client application using the W3C Sample Code Library and as a test-tool for quick access to the Web from scripts, cron jobs etc. It can be run in interactive mode, non-interactive mode, as a proxy client, and it gives a variety of possibilities for data format conversion, filtering etc. It is primarily intended as a test-tool for quick access to the Web or used in scripts, cron jobs etc.

Authors

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Tim Berners-Lee, and Nicola Pellow

Status

Used as an example application for the W3C Sample Code Library

Plans

New releases follows the releases of the W3C Sample Code Library.

Platforms

The application  is known to compile on the following Platforms. See also the VMS version.

Getting the Source Code

This application is part of the libwww distribution package which you can get from the Library top page. You can see how to unpack and compile the software in the README file, and you can find more information on the arthitecture in the Internals and how to use it in the User's Guide.

Copyright

W3C Line Mode Browser is covered by the MIT Copyright Statement, and with acknowledgement to CERN

Patches, Bug fixes, etc..

When you have modifications and want them to go into our code base then please fill out the form for Corrections, Modifications, and Patches and send it to us. Otherwise we can not use the patch!

More information

• Documentation Overview
• Release Notes
• Installation Guide
• Known Bugs and Patches
• Customization
• Quick User Guide
• Commands
• Command Line Options
• Change History
• Internals