Within this dialog, several HTTP header fields that are sent out with every request can be defined. The contents of each enabled field is used as specified here, no further checking or conversion of the contents is done. Additionally, the desired processing of certain dynamic header fields and the value of some request-related parameters can be determined.
All changes made and accepted here do not have any effect on already created request contexts that are used by application windows and other windows created by them. The request settings are only taken into account when creating a new request context, e.g. by opening a URL window.
The following header fields and options may be specified, where multiple values for a field are usually separated by commas:
A list of content-types for the Accept:
header field, e.g. "text/html, text/vnd.wap.wml, text/plain,
*/*
".
A list of content-encodings for the
Accept-Encoding:
header field, e.g. "deflate, gzip,
compress
".
A list of charsets for the
Accept-Charset:
header field, e.g. "utf-8, iso-8859-1,
us-ascii, *
".
A list of language codes for the
Accept-Language:
header field, e.g. "de, en,
*
".
Value for the User-Agent:
header field, e.g.
"w3browse
" or "Mozilla/4.0 (w3browse)
".
Additionally, this field provides a predefined list of some common values
which is stored in the configuration
file.
This usually enabled option allows to control whether to follow redirections of GET requests automatically or not, while redirections of POST requests are never followed because of their behavior that is not well defined in this case.
Enables the processing of cookies,
whereby all cookies are treated like session cookies and are only
accepted from and sent back again to the originating server. Information
about currently defined cookies may be requested by using the special
URL
about:cookies
, which provides access
to the cookie manager.
Enables the transmission of Referer:
headers to servers.
This purely informational request header field contains the
URL of that document from which a request
originates. URLs of type file:
, about:
and
internal:
are always omitted. Authentication information that
may be embedded within server-based
URLs (the user:password@
part) is
stripped before the URL is used for reference.
This usually disabled option allows to determine whether the current settings of the dialogs "Browser Settings" and "Color Settings" should be bound to a newly created request context or not. Note that settings that are bound to a request context are not affected by later changes to those settings.
Specifies the maximum number of entries in the local history of a viewer window. An invalid or negative value causes the length of the history list to be unlimited.
never
,
type
, always
)Determines whether and when new windows should be opened in order to display documents that are received as a result of following links of any sort within a viewer window. The following options are available:
never
type
always
This option defines the default behavior and may cause suitable documents to be displayed within the same viewer window, which is assisted by a local history that allows to switch between the different documents of such a window.
These fields allow to specify the maximum size of
viewer windows in general and of
WML windows as a special case. The value of a size is given in characters in
the format WidthxHeight
. An empty or
invalid value indicates "full screen" while the corresponding screen size
component is implicitly added to a size component if it is less than or equal
to zero. Additionally, these fields provide a predefined list of some common
values which is stored in the configuration
file.
The actual size of a window does never exceed the size of its associated
screen. The minimum window size is forced to
30x9
.