How to rename "local mode"?

[atauenis]

In early builds of WebOne I have noticed that I can access WebOne through modern browsers without setting it as a proxy server in browser settings. Then I've used URLs like http://localhost/http://example.com . So this is why the feature is called "local mode". After initial debugging, the "local mode" was kept and begin available to every client, especially for those which can't connect via proxies.

Some time later the server moved from slow handmade TCP/HTTP-server code to fast&stable Microsoft's HTTP library, and WebOne lacks ability to be accessed in "local mode" from browsers without Host header (e.g. all before 1996, exactly that dinosaurs without proxy support :) ). Probably this will be fixed some time later.

Seems that the old name is not correct for the feature. How it should be better called in documentation in future?

• Direct mode? Probably not. The directest mode of the proxy is when browser connecting to WWW through proxy.
• Bypass mode? Too not. This meaning that all traffic is going bypassing the proxy server.
• External mode? Can't see difference on "externality" between traffic through proxy via correct settings and in "local mode".
• Manual mode? May be. But sounds country-style.

So I'm asking community. :)

[atauenis]

WebOne also have "dirty local" mode. Probably it also should be renamed.
This mode is accessed by relative links on pages loaded in local mode. It it WebOne adds last used hostname to the ex-relative address:

25.02.2021 12:23:16.139+15429	>Downloading content...
25.02.2021 12:23:16.143+40	>GET /favicon.ico (127.0.0.1)
25.02.2021 12:23:16.143+9897	 Dirty local: http://atauenis.ru/favicon.ico
25.02.2021 12:23:16.143+14190	>Downloading content...
25.02.2021 12:23:16.139+366726	<Done.

However, I think it will be better if WebOne fill fix all relative URLs to absolute in "local mode". But this is not well implemented currently.

[atauenis]

Decided to call it "alternate access mode". And also it is now working with old browsers like WinMosaic 0.7.
Ex. "dirty local" mode - now "alternate access mode, dirty URL".