UPDATES: web-to-email servers / Vancouver Webpages Webgate

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Vancouver Webpages Webgate

Category: web-to-email servers

Posting address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Command: as the subject, or in the body
Web page: http://vancouver-webpages.com/webgate/

Syntax and returned document:
GET <URL>
        HTML as MIME attachment. Inserts a base href="<URL>" tag as the first
        line of the document, so all hypertext links are correct.

MAIL <URL>
        HTML as MIME attachment. Modifies links so they point to
        mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <link URL>
        (a click on the link should open a new email request to
        [EMAIL PROTECTED])
        Can be used to submit forms which use the GET method (but not the POST
        method).

DUMP <URL>
        Text dump as MIME attachment. Links are listed at the foot of the text.
        Tries to latinise character entity and numeric references by printing
        ASCII equivalents. Your email client may display the text as though it
        were HTML (does not look good in some clients, eg: Pegasus Mail).

MIME <URL>
        Use this for binary files, eg: PDF, images. Returns the file as a MIME
        attachment.

HEAD <URL>
        Returns just the HTTP headers of the URL (no content -- just information
        about the resource). Could be useful if you want to know the size or
        date of a file before you fetch it.

SEARCH  <KEYWORDS>
        Returns a page of Google search results for your <KEYWORDS>.
        Modifies links so they point to
        mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <URL>
        (a click on the link should open a new email request to
        [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Character encoding issues:
        GET and MAIL return HTML attachments which can be viewed in your default
        browser. Unicode pages should be the same as they are on the WWW.
        DUMP does not understand Unicode.

Recommendation:
        Use DUMP if your target is
                - a text file
                - an English language web page
        Use MAIL or GET if your target is
                - a web page in a language which uses diacritics
                - a web page in a language which does not use the Latin alphabet
        Use MAIL if
                - you expect to browse links on the returned page
                - you expect to fill in a simple form on the returned page
        Use MIME to get binary files.

Other:
        - Vancouver Webpages Webgate has a quota system. Please obtain and read
          http://vancouver-webpages.com/webgate/ before you start using it.
        - They have a very reasonable paid service: details at
          http://vancouver-webpages.com/webgate/premium.html

Examples:
        Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
        Subject:
                GET http://szs.net/emailonly/tiny.html
                MAIL http://szs.net/emailonly/tiny.html
                DUMP http://szs.net/emailonly/tiny.html
                HEAD http://szs.net/emailonly/tiny.html
                MIME http://szs.net/emailonly/tiny.gif
                SEARCH email-only methods
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