SAOimage can be used as a "helper" application to a World Wide Web
browser such as Netscape or Mosaic.
Client settings
To make sure SAOimage is used whenever a FITS image is encountered,
this line should be added to your .mime.types file:
image/x-fits fit fits fts FIT FITS
and this line to your .mailcap file
image/x-fits; saoimage -fits %s
If you want to avoid the Netscape messages which come up during your use of
the browser, try this instead:
image/x-fits; saoimage -q -fits %s
Test Image
If you have correctly set up SAOimage as a helper application, you should be
able to retrieve and display a FITS image of the spiral galaxy M51 from
http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/postage_stamp/wpix.fits
Server Settings
To serve FITS files from a http server so that SAOimage will
be invoked to browse them, add this line to the httpd srm.conf file:
AddType image/x-fits .fit .fits .fts .FIT .FITS
and make sure that any FITS files on your server have one of those
extensions.
