I think it is good to provide more packet drivers (for example, AMD PCNet driver for pcnet/vlance, rtl8029as (ne2k_pci), rtl8139) so people can test microweb on more VMs.

Re: https://www.lazybrowndog.net/freedos/virtualbox/

MicroWeb, DosLynx and Arachne Chat board: https://tinyurl.com/yacddu53

Hi, Booted to DOS traps MicroWeb makefile error with this '....\src\dos\dos' problem.

(ERROR: E059 unable to open '....\src\dos\dos')

Please rectify this MicroWeb src bug! Thanks

I have an IBM 5162 with DOS 6.22 and an ATI All in wonder EGA+ card. 3com 3c509. The binary crashes on run, doesn't switch to graphics mode, just hangs. Any clues? Would love to check this out!

Proposed patch to resolve #11.

I thought offering the patch might help the discussion, since none was happening on the issue. I've not written any C++ in a long time, but this builds for me locally and seems to work as expected.

I provided more client details in HTTP_USER_AGENT and then hit http://whatsmyuseragent.org/ and they appeared. Old behavior is preserved if the env variable is unset.

It might be nice to allow users to customize/append to the user agent string, perhaps via environment variable, so that tools that track user agents not only see MicroWeb BUILDDATE, but also the platform information that is typically shown in parenthesis, e.g. OS, architecture, hardware, etc. Not that MicroWeb should be trying to detect and set it; it would be up to the user to configure.

Users that configure the extra info are then silently advertising what they use to surf, and popular proxies like FrogFind are in a better place to see what kinds of hardware are using their service.

This would be wonderful to use with a simple web server to host file downloads.

On my home network I have a DOS software archive folder and I use

python -m http.server 8080

to offer a simple web page to download files from that archive on my WIndows 95/NT machines.

Downloading them via Microweb would be a much more convenient way to access those files from my MSDOS machines as well.

Crypto Ancienne is a HTTP proxy that is meant for old computers that do not have the processing power necessary to do TLS, but unlike most other proxies with the same goal, it only handles https:// urls and does not do rewriting of transferred contents. It is designed to be used with a compatible web browser, which allows forwarding https requests to a plaintext HTTP proxy, something that MicroWeb doesn't seem to support at the moment.

I think it would be a very clean solution for https support in MicroWeb, and help with pages where FrogFind doesn't correctly identify the contents.

Failed Build with this DOSNet.ERR: ....\src\DOS\DOSNet.cpp(563): Warning! W014: col(0) no reference to symbol '__static_assert'

....\lib\mTCP\TCPINC\dns.h(60): Note! N392: col(39) definition: 'void __static_assert( int * )' Please help . . .

Re: MicroWeb build ERR:

....\lib\mtcp\tcplib\trace.cpp: 201 lines, included 2434, no warnings, no errors

Code size: 270 wlink system dos name microweb.exe file { MicroWeb.obj App.obj Parser.obj Renderer.obj Tags.obj Platform.obj CGA.obj EGA.obj Hercules.obj Font.obj Inter face.obj DOSInput.obj DOSNet.obj Page.obj packet.obj arp.obj eth.obj ip.obj tcp. obj tcpsockm.obj udp.obj utils.obj dns.obj timer.obj ipasm.obj trace.obj } Error (E14): Cannot execute (wlink): Arg list too big Error (E42): Last command making (microweb.exe) returned a bad status Error (E02): Make execution terminated

This is an extraordinary program -- thank you for all your hard work. Running MicroWeb -c on Omnibook 425 makes for easy reading, but MicroWeb on the 200LX is very hard on the eyes, and the MWEB95.EXE only partially fills the 200LX screen.

Would it be difficult to allow a choice of font size and an option for bold-ing?

Thanks again for making a browser that drags DOS kicking and screaming into 2022.

If you can get this to support html forms, either gif or png images, and 'ismap' (https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_img_ismap.asp) then you can probably use Web Rendering Proxy (https://github.com/tenox7/wrp) to render modern web pages.