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Robert Bihlmeyer <e9426626@stud2.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> I just got a spam mail, broken text/html, naturally. Ok, can live with
> that.
> 
> But it included an img element, w3 invoked my net-connection, and started
> downloading that damned thing. I don't like this, I don't like this at
> all.
> 
> Just to let you know. If someone has an easy way to prevent this, I'd be
> thankful, too.

If there is an appropriate hook, you could just set url-standalone-mode to
't' before invoking w3, and back to 'nil' when the drawing was over.

-Bill P.