SuperLinux Encyclopedia - The Internet

I realize this page needs reorganization. RSN.

Also see Security, Networking, and TCP/IP.

Also see Databases; some SW mixes web and DB technologies (middleware?).

Getting Connected:

• PPP page

The Internet and WWW in General:

• Markup Languages and editors (HTML, SMGL, XML)
• A Primer on Internet and TCP/IP Tools (RFC-1739 at InterNIC)
• Netcraft Web Server Survey
• The Runes Project A Robust Routing System for the Real World. (proposed better-than IPv6 internet scheme)
• Webring (home page; parent site of "Linux User's Groups Ring" and others.)
• Freshmeat: HTTP
• Freshmeat: Ident
• Freshmeat: Web apps
• IM - Internet Messaging:
  • CommuniGate Pro  "Internet messaging server"; Remotely controllable.
  • Jabber "to create a complete open-source platform for Instant Messaging with transparent communication to other IM systems (ICQ, AIM, etc)"
• For Web-based E-mail topics, see in Mail.
• The Domain-name Defense Advocate  Complain to those attempting unfair take-over of a domain name. Get on emailing list for alerts.
• IBM's AlphaWorks  "The source for cutting-edge Internet research and technology."
• Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing  On-line book.
• E-Commerce, on-line shopping SW, etc. 

Internet "Government", policy, policies, standards, etc.:

• RFCs: See in Standards
• ARIN - American Registry for Internet Numbers  "non-profit organization established for the purpose of administration and registration of Internet Protocol (IP) numbers to the geographical areas previously managed by Network Solutions, Inc. (InterNIC)."
• InterNIC (Domain name registration, RFCs, etc.)
  A coopretive activity of the National Science Foundation and Network Solutions, Inc.
• IETF Archives (Internet documents; mirror at merit.edu)
• RIPE  Europe's NIC
• APNIC - Asia/Pacific NIC
• Intellectual Capital  Internet politics & policies.
• NSI Flawed Domain Name Policy information page  Info on domain disputes and resolution.
• Personal Comments on the WIPO Process  With "Critique of WIPO RFC 3" (trademark/domain-name issues).
• Web3D Consortium  (formerly the VRML consortium) with a mandate to develop and promote open standards to enable 3D Web and broadcast applications.

Misc. tools:

• Freshmeat: BBS
• cURL (gets file for a URL)
• MapNet (shows Internet backbone)
• Prolifics  Web SW dev. tools
• ROADS  "a collection of tools for use in building on-line [Yahoo-like] catalogues."
• Search Tools:
  • Web Site Search Tools  "information, news and advice about web site searching technology"
  • Ht://Dig (a searcher for intranets)
  • webglimpse  "adds search capabilities to your WWW site"
  • Searching a Web Site with Linux  Sep'98 LG
  • Doc Father  $ & demo. Java-based "search engine for any web site or web-based documentation"
• Sitemap  Makes a map of a web site. Was here. Might need search.
• Viewmax  $ Integrate new and legacy data systems with the WWW.
• Right Now Technologies, Inc.  $ Online knowledgebase software; for tech-support info, etc.
• xwhois  GUI version of "whois"; finds info on internet hosts.
• Host name to Latitude/Longitude (Type in host+domain, get lat/lon)
• PlanetUplink  $; SW for remote access of applications on almost any computer via Internet.
• Get Lat/Lon of any IP address here 

Misc specific topics:

• Books and book reviews:
  • Website Automation Toolkit  Oct'98 LG
  • A Methodology for Developing and Deploying Internet & Intranet Solutions  Jul'98 LG
• Dynamic web pages:
  • Swift-Generator  "simple replacement for Macromedia Generator. It aims at dynamically replacing texts and fonts in an already existing Flash file. This allows Webmasters to create dynamic content such as stock-exchange values, weather values and the like."
• FTP:
  • Building an Automatic FTP Retriever  Dec'98 LG
  • etftp  "The Enhanced Trivial File Transfer Protocol, RFC 1986, client/server."
  • gFTP  Gtk-based.
  • NFTP  $ (Shareware). Multi-lingual.
  • WXftp (ftp for X with many features)
  • Freshmeat: FTP Clients
• Internet Phones:
  • Wisper (half-duplex)
• Internet Statistics:
  • The Linux Counter
  • Internet Domain Survey
  • Internet Traffic Report  "The Internet Traffic Report monitors the flow of data around the world."
  • ISP hardware and software purchases
  • Netcraft  Form allows one to determine what server/SW/OS a host (eg linux.org or www.linux.org) uses.
  • The Netcraft web server survey
  • The osi++ Counter "Counting the Operating Systems of the Internet"
  • Web Growth Data
  • WebCMO  "web marketing research"
• Intranets:
  • Intranet Server HOWTO  How to setup a Linux Intranet server.
  • Intranet Hallways Systems Based on Linux  Building an "internet information warehouse" in a M$+Linux shop. Jul'97 LG
• IRC (Internet Relay Chat):
  • an IRC page
  • Freshmeat: IRC
  • Freshmeat: IRC  Daemons.
  • Freshmeat: KDE IRC
  • Freshmeat: X11 IRC
  • some.net -- The Open Source IRC Network
  • Review of Kirc & BitchX  Linux Today, Jan'98.
• Proxy Servers, Caching:
  • Proxy Servers are an interface between the Internet and a LAN/Intranet. Allows many computers to use a single Internet connection. Caching proxy servers store some data to reduce Internet traffic, etc.
  • "Caching the Web" LJ article starting Jan'99.
  • Freshmeat: Proxy
  • Eolian's InfoStorm and EagleWatch (smart web page cacheing software)
  • I-Gear  "couples high-performance caching with unparalleled features for controlling user Web access enterprise-wide"
  • Netscape+Proxy mini-HOWTO  How to set up a proxy server for Netscape.
  • Netscape Proxy Server Administrator's Guide (lot of stuf here)
  • Squid Internet Object Cache "offers high performance proxy caching for Web clients"
  • SOCKS5 Proxy Server Mini-Howto
  • Ask Slashdot: Linux Proxy Server for Household Network
  • Computer Science Manufaktur  Proxy Server SW: "CSM Proxy".
  • Linux as a Proxy Server "put your firewall on a proxy server"; LJ Dec'97
• Web Servers:
  • Web Server Comparisons
  • Apache:
    • Apache Week
    • Apache (Web Server SW)
    • Covalent Technologies  $; Raven SSL security add-on for Apache.
    • TkApache  Nov'98 LG
    • Setting Up the Apache Web Server  Dec'96 LG
    • Stronghold (an Apache variant):
      • Interview with Sameer Parekh  Founder of C2Net, importer of Stronghold. Aug'97 LG
      • Stronghold: Undocumented Fun  Feb'97 LG
    • Ask Slashdot: Apache's Ability to Scale
    • Mod_Corba  Apache plug-in which exposes "modules" API via CORBA.
  • fhttpd "FTP/HTTP server"
  • JAWS: Understanding High Performance Web Systems (research paper with references)
  • The Roxen Challenger Web Server  Sep'98 LG
  • Serializing Web Application Requests  Oct'98 LG
  • Setting Up a Dynamic IP Web Server  Oct'96 LG
  • Thin servers  Local link.
  • thttpd - tiny/turbo/throttling HTTP server (one of the fastest under heavy load)
  • WWW HOWTO How to set up WWW clients and servers.
  • WWW mSQL HOWTO How to set up a web server database with mSQL.
  • Xitami Web Server
• WWW-based online store (e-commerce) SW:
  • AcuShop  $; E-commerce product.
  • CyberSource  $ "On-Demand Commerce Applications"; web-based.
  • iHTML Merchant
  • ParaSoft Corp  Has "Internet Store" fully automated e-commerce system.

Anonymity, Privacy:

• Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conferences  1999 April 6-8, Washington, DC
• Anonymous Communications on the Internet
• Anonymizer, Inc.
• Cookie Central (all about cookies; pro and con info)
• Crowds Home Page
• Key Recovery Alliance (KRA); Promotes infrastructure for government access to private encrypted data.
• How Big Mother tracking your activity today.   An official European report actually titled "An Appraisal Of The Technologies Of Political Control".
• NetAction (techno-activists, anti-M$)
• Electronic Privacy Information Center

Scary Stories:

• The Case of the Woodside Literary Agency
• Super Zippo
• People before Lawyers
• Anatomy of a Murder Home Page
• Nolo Home Page

SPAM:

• Stopping Spam: Stamping Out Unwanted Email and News Postings O'Reilly book.  Review of above at /.
• Fight Spam on the Internet!
• Join the Fight Against Spam!
• Fight Spam on the Internet!
• MAPS RBL Usage (anti-spam software?)
• Fight Spam on the Internet!
• Junkbuster  "blocks unwanted banner ads and protects your privacy from cookies and other threats"
• JUNKBUSTERS Home Page  Plural?
• CNET features - how to - stop spam
• Ricochet (agent for tracking and reporting spammers)
• Spam: How to Fight it & Where to Complain about Frauds & Scams
• Filtering Advertisements from Web Pages using IPFWADM  Jan'97 LG
• Freshmeat: Anti-Spam

Web page and site design:

• Also see: copyrights, trademarks, and GUI design.
• forkinthehead.com "because flawed web sites deserve a fork in the head" (web site criticism)
• Matt's Script Archive
• Submit It! - The Net's most popular Web site promotion tool
• Web Pages That Suck "Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design"
• WWW Homepage Access Counter and Clock
• FastCounter (Link Exchange's free page hit counter)
• CGI:
  • Java-CGI HOWTO  How to set up Java-capable CGI bin.
  • HTML & CGI - An Introduction
  • Debugging CGI Programs over TCP  Nov'98 LG
  • Keeping Programs Trim with CGI_Lite  "Use less memory when running simple CGI programs."; Dec'97 LJ
  • webThingy  "A simple framework for validating HTML form parameters"
• "Above the Fold" [newspaper jargon] for Web pages. Someone [the CASIE org?] said it is the top 608x320 pixels which is a 19x10 super-block of 32x32 pixel sub-blocks. [If you put your stuff there, you may assume readers won't have to scroll. If they do, it's their fault for having a smaller-than-standard window.]

Web page creation ("authoring") and editing:

• Also see Editors and Markup Languages.
• The Banner Generator (online web page banner maker)
• Making a WWW page with XEmacs  A tutorial including brief XEmacs tutorial.
• MaduraSoft  "WYSWYG web authoring tool for creating a homepage based on applet which performs HTML functions plus additional features such as moving objects (text, image, etc.) and object exact positioning"
• Visual DHTML "Visual DHTML is a free Web-based authoring tool that lets you create interactive web content"
• WebKing  $; Web site creation and maintenance tool. Editor, spell-checker, link-checker, more.
• WebTk "Web Authoring Toolkit"
• Industrializing Web Page Construction  "Build your web pages the easy way."; Dec'97 LJ
• GIMP plug-in for clickable imagemaps 

Web page monitoring:

• PageWatch!
• urlmon
• Web Secretary "web page monitoring software" "Not only does it detect changes based on content analysis (instead of date/time stamp or simple textual comparison), it will email the changed page to you with the new contents highlighted!"

Mirroring of Web sites and FTP dirs:

• Freshmeat: Mirroring
• Copying Files Using Mirror  Jan'98 LG
• Pavuk
• pmirror: A perl script for mirroring an FTP site.
• Sitecopy
• w3mir
• wget (ftp link)

Web page and site maintenance and management:

• The Elsop Webmaster Resource Center
• Managing websites using Unix  and use of CVS.
• Better Counter Web Page counter site
• WebSpell  "HTML-Aware Spell Checker is Standard Plug-in Module for WebKing"; "ispell compatible"
• Link maintenance:
  • Software & Services for Checking Links & Creating Site Maps (great long list of $ & free tools)
  • Linbot (free partial clone of Linkbot; web-site managment tool)
  • Linkbot ($; web-site managment tool)
  • LinkScan Home Page "Finds Broken Links and Creates SiteMaps." ($?)
  • DLC - Dead Link Check  Fairly simple.
• sitecopy  Syncronizes a remote file server (eg, web site) with local copy.
• Web site statistics:
  • Welcome to WebTracker  Collects and shows site stats; free for 500 hits/day.
  • NetTracker/WebMaster  $; Usage tracking and content monitoring SW.
  • Sane Solution  $; "NetTracker line of server-based Internet usage tracking software"
• WebKing  $ "a complete Web development environment with an unique plug-in architecture that allows Webmasters to perform all the necessary functions of creating and managing error-free Web sites"

Web Application SW & Web App. Development SW:

• Bobo "Bobo is a collection of tools for developing world-wide web applications" (with good doc)
• Footprints  "Web-based helpdesk and problem management SW".
• iServer  "a small, fast, scalable and easy to administer platform-independent Web/Application Server written entirely in JavaTM"
• Locomotive Web Application Server  $ & "free download"
• PHP - Professional Home Pages:
  • PHP.net  Good, popular web app SW. Use instead of CGI?
  • PHP Base Library "toolkit for PHP3 developers supporting them in the development of Web applications"
  • asp2php  Converts ASP to PHP3.
• TalentSoft Web+  "for developing web-based client-server applications"
• Zope  "a free, open source web application platform used for building high-performance, dynamic web sites."
• Groupware stuff:
  • Ask Slashdot: Outlook-like apps for Linux?  And Exchange.
  • TeamWave  "lets teams work together in shared electronic rooms across the Internet"
  • WrapBit  "Distributed Groupware Project"
  • CVW - Collaborative Virtual Workspace SW  $; "a virtual environment that supports geographically disparate groups, allowing teams to communicate, collaborate, and share information using synchronous tools."

Root Domain names and meanings:

• A note on second-level domain names:
  The domains example.com, example.org, and example.net have been reserved by IANA and NIC for use in documentation, examples and talks, to reduce abuse of real domains.
• Another list (.xxx and .xx)
• A country code list (e.g., "us") "ISO 3166" (at LSL)
• com: commercial entities edu: educational institutions gov: governments int: international organizations mil: military services net: networks and ISPs org: non-profit organizations

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