Hamsailor
11-29-2005, 02:37 PM
To get access to information off the Internet via any low bandwidth connection (such as Winlink2000 HF or VHF E-mail, Sailmail, etc), the following might be of interest to some.....
You should be able to get your own customized news page (or weather page etc.) from say CNN or the London Times, etc. etc. by doing this:
The Airmail Catalog for the Winlink2000 or Sailmail systems is an extensive list of Internet page addresses , or Uniform Resource Locators (URL’s), pertaining mainly to weather services for yachts and vessels around the globe.
By selecting a Catalog item , Winlink will then transmit this URL to a server and the Internet page of interest to the user, will be returned after a few minutes of data processing in cyberspace.
But, what if your Internet page of interest is not supported in the Airmail or Saildocs catalog?
Well, you can successfully design your own catalog of URL’s to be transmitted via Winlink E-mail to so-called E-mail to web servers, which will return your information to you after a few minutes of cyberspace data crunching.
Here is how, for the bandwidth impaired on the High Seas or on Safari, etc. using Winlink or Sailmail:
Send an e-mail to anyone of a number of E-mail to web servers. Type some rudimentary code into the text or body area of the e-mail form including the required URL to be sourced. Type in a return address ( your Winlink or Sailmail address). Log off. Wait about ten minutes while having coffee. Log on. Pull down the required web page (URL) as an E-mail from the server. Most of the time this will be in text form, but could also include some graphics. Bottom line: Your information, as requested, is there in text form.
Do this: Try an E-mail to the Agora server: agora@dna.affrc.go.jp which is Spam free. (Important).
In the body, type:
send <URL>
rsend <your Winlink or Sailmail e-mail address>
(Where <URL> is the actual URL of the last page in the menu tree off a specific web service, such as the NOAA web pages, or a navigation web page or stock web page etc. – You will have to source a catalog list of these while at home or connected to the Internet via a conventional connection.)
Try:
http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/raw/fz/fznt25.knhc.off.n04.txt
or
http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/28/news/
If you don’t know the specific end page URL, you can still use the above procedure, as the Agora server will send the URL’s of all links found on a higher level web page to you in text form. The whole process will just take longer, because you will have to wait out the +/- ten minutes of cyberspace data crunching each time between pages.
For a full list of E-mail to web servers see: www.expita.com/servers.html
For instance, this is what the Agora server sent me back to my Hotmail address, after I searched for CNN news using this end URL - http://money.cnn.com/news/briefing/
(This also works for any e-mail adress such as your Winlink or Sailmail address)
Notice that the images are not sent (saving bandwidth), and that the URL's of these images and expanded text are referenced behind each line of summary text to be sourced at the bottom of the e-mail.
The source is CNN, and the partial text is used here for illustrative purposes only.
Sensored by myself. :D
You should be able to get your own customized news page (or weather page etc.) from say CNN or the London Times, etc. etc. by doing this:
The Airmail Catalog for the Winlink2000 or Sailmail systems is an extensive list of Internet page addresses , or Uniform Resource Locators (URL’s), pertaining mainly to weather services for yachts and vessels around the globe.
By selecting a Catalog item , Winlink will then transmit this URL to a server and the Internet page of interest to the user, will be returned after a few minutes of data processing in cyberspace.
But, what if your Internet page of interest is not supported in the Airmail or Saildocs catalog?
Well, you can successfully design your own catalog of URL’s to be transmitted via Winlink E-mail to so-called E-mail to web servers, which will return your information to you after a few minutes of cyberspace data crunching.
Here is how, for the bandwidth impaired on the High Seas or on Safari, etc. using Winlink or Sailmail:
Send an e-mail to anyone of a number of E-mail to web servers. Type some rudimentary code into the text or body area of the e-mail form including the required URL to be sourced. Type in a return address ( your Winlink or Sailmail address). Log off. Wait about ten minutes while having coffee. Log on. Pull down the required web page (URL) as an E-mail from the server. Most of the time this will be in text form, but could also include some graphics. Bottom line: Your information, as requested, is there in text form.
Do this: Try an E-mail to the Agora server: agora@dna.affrc.go.jp which is Spam free. (Important).
In the body, type:
send <URL>
rsend <your Winlink or Sailmail e-mail address>
(Where <URL> is the actual URL of the last page in the menu tree off a specific web service, such as the NOAA web pages, or a navigation web page or stock web page etc. – You will have to source a catalog list of these while at home or connected to the Internet via a conventional connection.)
Try:
http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/raw/fz/fznt25.knhc.off.n04.txt
or
http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/28/news/
If you don’t know the specific end page URL, you can still use the above procedure, as the Agora server will send the URL’s of all links found on a higher level web page to you in text form. The whole process will just take longer, because you will have to wait out the +/- ten minutes of cyberspace data crunching each time between pages.
For a full list of E-mail to web servers see: www.expita.com/servers.html
For instance, this is what the Agora server sent me back to my Hotmail address, after I searched for CNN news using this end URL - http://money.cnn.com/news/briefing/
(This also works for any e-mail adress such as your Winlink or Sailmail address)
Notice that the images are not sent (saving bandwidth), and that the URL's of these images and expanded text are referenced behind each line of summary text to be sourced at the bottom of the e-mail.
The source is CNN, and the partial text is used here for illustrative purposes only.
Sensored by myself. :D