Internet Applications: Web and FTP
Fedora provides powerful web and FTP clients for accessing the Internet. Many are installed automatically and are ready to use when you first start up your Linux system. Linux also includes full Java development support, letting you run and construct Java
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Internet Applications: Web and FTP Fedora provides powerful web and FTP clients for accessing the Internet. Many are installed automatically and are ready to use when you first start up your Linux system. Linux also includes full Java development support, letting you run and construct Java applets. This chapter covers some of the more popular web, Java, and FTP clients available on Linux. Web and FTP clients connect to sites that run servers, using web pages and FTP files to provide services to users. Web browsers and FTP clients are commonly used to conduct secure transactions, such as logging in to remote sites, ordering items, or transferring files. Such operations are currently secured by encryption methods provided by the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). If you use a browser for secure transactions, it should be SSL-enabled. Most browsers, such as Mozilla and ELinks, include SSL support. For FTP operations, you can use the SSH version of ftp, sftp, or the Kerberos 5 version. Linux distributions include SSL as part of a standard installation.
Web Browsers Most web browsers are designed to access several different kinds of information. Web browsers can access a web page on a remote website or a file on your own system. Some browsers can also access a remote news server or an FTP site. The type of information for a site is specified by the keyword http for websites, nntp for news servers, ftp for FTP sites, or file for files on your own system.
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Chapter 7
Internet Applications: Web and FTP
Popular browsers for Fedora include Firefox (Mozilla), Konqueror, Rekonq, GNOME Web (Epiphany), Chrome (Google), and Lynx (see Table 7-1). Firefox is the default web browser used on most Linux distributions, including Fedora. Rekonq is the KDE web browser, accessible from the KDE desktop, and Epiphany is the GNOME web browser. Chrome is the Google web browser. Lynx and ELinks are command-line-based browsers with no graphics capabilities, but in every other respect they are fully functional web browsers.
Table 7-1. Web Browsers Website
Description
Firefox
The Mozilla project Firefox web browser; Fedora desktop default browser https://www.mozilla.org
Konqueror
KDE desktop web browser https://www.konqueror.org
Rekonq
KDE desktop web browser https://rekonq.kde.org
GNOME Web (Epiphany)
GNOME web browser https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web
Chromium
Google Chrome web browser https://www.chromium.org
Lynx
Text-based command-line web browser https://lynx.isc.org
ELinks
Text-based command-line web browser https://elinks.or.cz
The Firefox Web Browser Firefox is based on the Netscape core source code known as Mozilla (see Figure 7-1). In current releases, Fedora uses Firefox as its primary browser. The Mozilla project is an open source project based on the original Netscape browser code that provides a development framework for web-based applications, primarily the web browser and email client. The Mozilla project
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