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On Mon, 8 May 1995, Jeremy Allaire wrote:

> Rex Ballard replied:
> > Mosaic 2.0 puts BookLink, Air, Spyglass, and others to shame for their
> > incompetence and lack of innovations.
> > http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/World_Wide_Web/Browsers/WinMosaic__NCSA_/
> < the Common Client Interface, and support for Web interfaces to NNTP-News, 
> tn3270, Gopher, Wais, databases, and mail.>>
> 2.4 for Microsoft(TM) Windows already supports all of those features.

I haven't seen a 2.4 releas of Mosaic for Windows.  I would guess that is 
the spyglass version?

> It includes:
> * persistent disk-caching of graphics
> * enhanced cache-manager
> * Common-Client-Interface using OLE 2.0
> * full HTML 3.0 tables, align, etc.
> *  NNTP browse/post
> * full mail support
> * all old/retro internet protocols (e.g. gopher, wais, telnet, etc.).

Unix 2.5 has the same stuff.  Plus a few more.

> Also, I am told, they are going to take advantage of Netscape's innovations
> by incorporating SSL which has been distributed as a free public specification
> and free source to educational institutions.
Correction here: (from NCSA copyright notice)

 * The UI grants you (hereafter, Licensee) a license to use the Software *
 * for academic, research and internal business purposes only, without a *
 * fee.  Licensee may distribute the binary and source code (if released) *
 * to third parties provided that the copyright notice and this statement *
 * appears on all copies and that no charge is associated with such *
 * copies.  *
 *                                                                          

This is similar to the standard GPL.

 * Licensee may make derivative works.  However, if Licensee distributes *
 * any derivative work based on or derived from the Software, then *
 * Licensee will (1) notify NCSA regarding its distribution of the *
 * derivative work, and (2) clearly notify users that such derivative *
 * work is a modified version and not the original NCSA Mosaic *
 * distributed by the UI.  *

This is the good part.  You can make money on it if you want to, but you 
have to negotiate for the rights.  A (tax deductible contribution to 
NCSA?)

The source I got had a file (HTAuth.c) that included BASIC and Public 
Key, and has a comment /* Other authentication routines go here */

This is where you can plug in ssp, shttp, or 3rd party (First Virtual, 
Digicash...) authentication.  This is in libwww2 directory. 

I also notice support for SGML.  I haven't really explored this yet.
Anyone else figured this out?

> Jeremy Allaire


	Rex Ballard
	Standard & Poor's/McGraw-Hill
	Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect
	the Management of the McGraw-Hill Companies.


From rballard@cnj.digex.net Tue May  9 02:07:36 1995