Options

Depending on the selected option, you can set different attributes. Clicking on the "OK" button stores these settings temporarily. Clicking on "Store settings" store all present settings permanently, so that they are used when the MM3WebAssistant is started again. With "OK" and "Store settings" close the dialogues. With "Apply" the dialogue is still open and the attributes are stored temporarily.

Options/General

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General

Language

It can be chosen between German and English.

Survey of Cache Archive

The chache of the MM3WebAssistant are displayed as a HTML-page or a about a applet through the command "ls".

It is also possible to display the cache in the in the search window of the MS Internet Explorer. The URL needed for this has to be entered in.

This URL can be found out by using the MM3WebAssistant in the offline mode and opening the search window. The error message issued will contain the URL. This URL can also be found in the browser protocol.

Java-Script

Use of dynamic sites of the MM3WebAssistant with Java Script. So that the web pages are loading faster, e.q. by the command "ls".

Display browser server protocol

The HTTP protocol between MM3WebAssistant (browser) and server is displayed in an additional window.

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Start of the Program

These settings are taken at the next start of the MM3WebAssistant!

Proxy Server

The MM3WebAssistant communicates with the browser via a port. The port 8080 is used per default.

View

This option decides which surface is used by the MM3WebAssistant. It can be switched between AWT and Swing. Swing is only available on the java platform 2.

Icon

MM3WebAssistant Professional is represented only as an icon.

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HTTP-Protocol

Proxy

A proxy inserted after the MM3WebAssistant can be specified here.

Setting the protocol header to the server

Selection of HTTP protocol versions.

The fastest data transmission is obtained with HTTP 1.1. This protocol version is only supported by the MM3WebAssistant Professional. The Browser should also be configured with this option. You find this option for the Microsoft Internet Explorer with:

Tools/Internet options/Extend/Parameters for HTTP 1.1. You find this option for the Netscape (Mozilla) with:

Edit/Preferences/Advanced/HTTP connections (see Proxy-Configuration).

Reference

Standard setting causes the browser to transmit the present URL (reference) at requesting another URL. This setting can be kept, or can be set so that no reference can be transmitted, or a reference can only be transmitted if it is in the same domain. You can thus limit the process of passing on data on your browsing habits.

Browser name (User-Agent)

At standard setting, the browser will transmit its name to the HTTP server. This setting can be kept, or can be set to transmit a different name or no name at all. You can thus limit the process of passing on data on your browsing habits.

Cookie:

If the options activated, cookies will be transmitted to the browser respectively to the server. You can thus limit the process of passing on data on your browsing habits.

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HTTPS-Protocol only with MM3-WebAssistant Professional

With the HTTPS-protocol are transferring as encoded files are storing as decoded files! There a URL is transformed from https://abc... to http://mywebassistant.net.abc... .

At the transmission of confidential data, due to storing of decoded files we don't advise to use this option. For deactivation switch off the HTTPS-proxy in the browser (see Proxy-Configuration).

The implementation of the protocol only consists of a subset. Therefore some HTML-pages cannot be displayed.

For use one of the two following options has at least to be activated.

It is recommended to use both options.

Transformation of URLs in HTML-pages

Absolute references of URLs with the HTTPS-protocol are transformed in HTML-pages. This option is efficient, but not possible at all pages.

Transformation of URLs with the SSL-Server

With the above option not workable URLs are transformed by the local SSL-server of MM3WebAssistant Professional. The port 8888 is used for the server per default. If this port is already busy, the port number has to be changed.

A security note of the browser signals the respectively first transformation with the SSL server of a URL from a domaine.

The safety notes are reduced, if the certificate "MM3-WebAssistant" is installed. The certificate can be installed by every note of the browser.

Proxy

A proxy inserted after the MM3WebAssistant Professional can be specified here.

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FTP-Protocol

Proxy

A proxy inserted after the MM3WebAssistant can be specified here.

Password for anonymous login

  • Qualifier "MM3-WebAssistant@"
  • E-mail address
  • Individual qualifier
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Marks

Marks links whose resources are available offline.

You can choose from the following settings

  • no
  • in the offline mode only
  • in the offline and online mode

Marking with

  • Standard:The link is highlighted green and the cursor is to the cross shape
  • Individual: A individual notation by stylesheet

Highlighting the changes between new and locally available HTML pages in the online mode.

This functionality can be switched on and off.

Marking with

  • Standard: Changes are highlighted blue.
  • Individual: A individual notation by stylesheet

At Private Edition there are reductions at all functions due to the simpler treatment.

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Frett

The Frett (Ferret) traces additional links, starting from the HTML site currently visible, to be able to offer them from the cache when further browsing is executed. However, this takes up a large proportion of bandwidth and memory space. Depending on the application the links to be retrieved can be specified as follows:

Frett traces following links

Within the structure

  • in actual directory and subdirectories only
  • within subdomain only
  • within domain only
  • all domains

HTML files and following types

  • all
  • images
  • PDF-Files
  • ZIP-Files

At Private Edition there are reductions at all functions due to the simpler treatment.

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Mirroring

Starting from the start URL you can mirror complete HTML sites in an adjustable depth with this option. After starting, the loaded HTML sites are protocoled in a new window. Delete the output of the protocol window by pressing the "Clear" button and cancel mirroring by pressing the "Cancel" button.

Please note that herefore the settings of the Options/Frett option will also be used. Changes in settings will be effected only after they have been saved (button OK or Store Settings).

Additonal protocol:

HTML pages loaded newly can be logged in addition HTML-List. You can navigate in this list

The list can be saved under one of the two URL's in the cache-archive of MM3WebAssistant:

Second URL uses the domain name of start URL and the date of the mirroring as file name.

At Private Edition there are reductions at all functions due to the simpler treatment.

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Cache

Define folder

The MM3WebAssistants cache consists of up to five folders (subdirectories) where the Internet sections can be filed. For operation it is vital that at least the directory used for installation is used here again. Within this directory lies domain www.MM3Tools.de which holds the MM3WebAssistant. Depending on your individual configuration, it may contain other domains.

Never change the directory structure of MM3Tools as the MM3WebAssistant presupposes the structure provided.

Options/Cache

Other folders may be added to the cache using the "Add" key, and deleted using "Del". We recommend to use one of these folders as a read/write-enable working directory. All other folders could then be assigned read-enable only. Simply by copying from the working directory you can then compile folders for specific tasks or subjects.

With the button "Browse" the directories can be indicated in a addition window with the Swing userinterface.

In the example above, five folders are given: The working directory, three folders specified by subject (job, financial, hobby) and the Cache Folder with the domain www.MM3Tools.de and any other sites of interest. By exchanging the entries you can compile any number of specific folders, which can also be stored on another storage device, like CD ROM. Moreover, the MM3WebAssistant itself can also be started from a CD ROM. It is not necessary to install it on a harddisk! Only a virtual machine must have been installed on the computer or in the network.

Web pages storing and compressing

At activation of the option "Store web pages" the files are put down in the directory with right of write. With MM3WebAssistant Professional text files can be compressed.

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Filter

Contents and profile filter

Ressources not relevant to you can be filtered to avoid unnecessary costs for data transmission and memory space. For automated filtering, restrictive operation has been chosen to make sure you are not denied contents you may find interesting. According to our analysis it may make sense not to select the general browser setting not to load images. We would rather advise to specify subdirectories and subdomains from which GIF images must not be loaded. If there are contents of entire domains or subdomains you are not interested in, you can also specify these.

The MM3WebAssistant can be used for many different purposes. It is difficult therefore to give any specific recommendations for filter settings. Possible applications may concern family filters or ad filters. For advertising purposes, GIF images are often loaded from specific subdirectories (e.g. advertising, adverts, ads, werbung, anzeige) or other files from specific subdomains (e.g. ad.). The filter setting prevents files to be loaded from the areas specified.

To configurate your application area, take note of the areas from which undesired files are loaded and specify these as filters.

Please note:

Providing a large variety of options, the MM3WebAssistant has not been conceived as an ads filter. It must also be noted that advertising today is a considerable driving force for the development and maintenance of many products and does provide information. We have therefore refrained from a pre-configuration as an ad blocker. This is also why the program has no option to use image sizes for filtering: These same sizes are sometimes used to serve the offer. Filtering in this respect will therefore not contribute to a more efficient use of the Internet.

To identify users, some providers use temporary identifiers in the URL. If a cache is used, these sites can therefore not be used to full extent. In simple cases MM3WebAssistant recognises this, it generates identifiers that can be re-used. For this, activate the field Profile.

Moreover, this session or profile information can, if necessary, be avoided with the following filter:

DOMAIN STRING

When the domain specified is saved into the cache, all characters of a subdirectory or file name to the right or to the left of the STRING specified will be eliminated.

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Local

Action to be taken when URL is not available

This option specifies the behaviour if a requested URL is not available in the browsing mode off-line.

  • An error message is issued by the browser (alert box).
  • An HTML page with an error message is generated. In addition, the local table of contents, preferrably contaning the URL requested, can be fetched.
  • The directory of contents is displayed automatically.

Creating and displaying protocols

  • All HTML pages and their headings.
  • All URLs not available in the browsing mode off-line.
  • Errors that have occured.

The protocol files can be deleted using the del DEL function on the HTML site of the protocol concerned.

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BETA Thesaurus

Thesaurus:(Functionality only available with a Java 2 platform.)

  • Create word index when browsing.
  • Display MM3 Thesaurus window on starting the program.

Highlighting the words found

  • Standard: Words are highlighted in bold setting and yellow.
  • Individually: Highlighting may be defined individually with Stylesheet Notation.
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Window MM3-Thesaurus

Thesaurus

  • Update: Updates the thesaurus. The display shows for each word the number of HTML pages in which it occurs. By doubleclicking a word, the URLs attached to the HTML pages will be listed.
  • Remove: Deletes the existing thesaurus.

URL Tree

  • Displays all HTML pages visited during the session in a tree diagram. By doubleclicking an URL, the page attached will be displayed.
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Clients

Rights of access

Spezification of clients (computers) with access to the MM3WebAssistant:

  • local: only the local computer have access
  • public: all computers have access
  • IP area: Computers within the specified IP area have access
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Update

Update

Following functionallities are available:

  • News
  • Update check
    You will be informed if a new version is available.
  • Update loading
  • Update installation

Auto Update

With the professional edition a check about a new version will be carried out weekly or monthly by activation. The check cannot be deactivated in the evaluation time.
With the private edition a check will be carried out monthly.

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MM3-WebAssistant

The following information is displayed:

We like to inform you about the further developments around the MM3WebAssistant by e-mail. Please, if you are interested in this, register yourself.

You can also specify the standard browser which is to be started with the MM3WebAssistant. In particular if no browser appears when you start the MM3WebAssistant, specify the browser here.

This information on the MM3WebAssistant is displayed when you click on the Help button.

Please feel free to use the Message button to inform us about occuring errors and any suggestions for the development of the MM3WebAssistant. We look forward to your suggestions and requests.

Your MM3WebAssistant Team

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