Objective
The Internet Browsing Operating system Shell (iBOS) project is aimed at providing a solution for low-end public computers and kiosk that wish to enable web-browsing. It is a text-based web-browsing shell, that allows lynx-like capabilities.

Major Features

• Text-based web-browsing
• Linux kernel 2.4 is the base operating system
• Shared proxy server (Java) on a MS-Windows machine
• Most HTML widgets - including combo boxes and text boxes are implemented
• Only the most common HTML formatting tags implemented.
• HTTP/1.0 GET and POST implemented
• Common browser semantics like Forward, Back, etc. are implemented
• Implementation depends on the Ncurses library
• Does Not allow the saving of files to local disk - requirement of public computers
• Caching at both proxy and client
• Content filtering at proxy server

Contribution

Anuj (Knuth)

• Design and Documentation
• Table engine (Pass2)
• HTML Widgets - Textboxes and Password boxes
• Client-side caching
• Network Interaction Module

Amit (Khanna)

• Design and Documentation
• Pass3 - Ordered and Unordered List
• Rendering Engine
• Event Handler
• Network Interaction Module

Mayur (Moor)

• Design and Documentation
• Pass1 - Active Element extraction and related data structures
• Stream and String tokenizers
• Active Serial Table - Active element navigation index
• HTML Widgets - Checkboxes, Radio buttons, Combo boxes, Hyperlinks, Images, Forms, Submit and Reset buttons.
• Parser skeleton
• Shell skeleton
• Network Interaction Module - byte-level network I/O classes
• Java Proxy server, cache, and content filter
• This Website