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Overview

URL Access Manager includes support for:

• Automatic decompression of compressed files

• Automatic file extraction from Stuffit archives (with version 5.0 of Stuffit)

• Firewalls, HTTP proxy servers, and SOCKS gateways

URL Access Manager allows you to use any of the following protocols during download operations: File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS), or the local file protocol (a URL beginning with file:/// that represents a local file). You could use the local file protocol to test your application on a computer that does not have access to a HTTP or FTP server.

For upload operations, you must use an FTP URL. URL Access Manager allows you to upload data using either anonymous or authenticated FTP sessions and supports both passive and active FTP connections. You can use FTP to download and upload files and directories, as well as to set and obtain URL properties.

If you use HTTP or HTTPS when downloading data, you will be able to perform data transfer with 40-bit RSA encryption, send HTML form information to a URL, and set and obtain URL properties.

URL Access Manager is designed to run in Mac OS 8.6 and later. URL Access Manager is part of Carbon 1.0.2, and is part of the Carbon framework in Mac OS X.

In Mac OS 8 and 9, the implementation of URL Access Manager is stored in a shared library called URL Access. You install it in the Extensions folder in the System Folder. The initial implementation of the data store is a local file.

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