3 mothra \- retrieve and display World-Wide Web files
19 to retrieve and display files from the World-Wide Web,
20 by name or through hypertext links.
21 Web names, called URLs, have a peculiar syntax:
25 https://code.9front.org/hg/plan9front/
29 The part up to the first colon gives the protocol for
33 Protocol, is the usual way of accessing web files.
37 begins the Internet address of the server where the file resides.
38 The address may contain a colon and a TCP port
39 number, which overrides the
40 default port number for the service. Next comes a
41 file name. Finally, the file name may be followed by
43 and a string giving a label within the file where the
49 given on the command line, defaulting to
50 the environment variable
53 There are a number of options:
56 Alt display. Starts in alt display mode, see menu
60 Kill images. Don't fetch/display images.
72 Verbose mode. Causes HTML errors to be printed
75 The display contains the last message from
77 a box where typed commands appear,
78 a scrollable list of previously visited files,
79 the title and URL of the current file,
80 and the scrollable text of the current file.
82 Button 1 selects and displays a file, either from the list
83 of previously visited pages or from a link (indicated
84 by underlined text or a boxed image) in the
85 current file. Button 2 shows the URL of a file,
86 but does not retrieve or display it.
87 Button 3 pops up a menu of commands:
91 Collapse or expand the navigation boxes at the top of the browser window.
94 Enter moth mode and switch to the moth cursor. If the HREF of an image
95 link is different from the URL of the image itself, a link to the HREF will be
96 printed on the right side of the image. Clicking an image or link with mouse
97 button 1 prompts the user to save a copy of the file in the current directory.
98 Clicking mouse button 2 sets the target as the current URL.
101 menu option again exits moth mode.
104 Copy the current entry text or selected page text to snarf buffer.
105 If nothing is selected, the current URL is copied.
108 Paste the snarf buffer to the current text entry.
111 Search for a regular expression in the current page.
114 Save the current URL to the hit list.
117 Retrieve and display the hit list.
120 Ask for confirmation and quit.
123 The typed commands are:
130 Go to the page with the given URL.
135 from the list of previously viewed pages.
138 Toggle killing of images.
141 Enter or exit moth mode.
144 Reload the current page.
147 Save the current page in the given
151 Capture a screenshot of the entire browser window in the given
155 Capture a screenshot of the content area in the given
164 retrieves a direct link to a file that is not an
165 HTML document (for example a GIF or JPEG
166 image), it will start up an appropriate viewer, for example
170 for most image files.
172 .B $home/lib/mothra/hit.html
175 .B /sys/src/cmd/mothra
179 Files are saved in the form received,
180 not in the form suggested by the name in an
182 command. A directory index saved from moth mode may be written in
183 the local directory as a file named
185 Sanitizing remote file names for the local file system is imperfect.
188 is distributed in a preliminary state; it has more than its share of bugs. Note that
190 like the other Guardian Monsters, has no particular concern for humanity.
193 first appeared in Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995). It was later modified for inclusion in
194 9front (September, 2011).