Libwww is a highly modular, general-purpose client side Web API written in C for Unix and Windows (Win32). It's well suited for both small and large applications, like browser/editors, robots, batch tools, etc. Pluggable modules provided with libwww include complete HTTP/1.1 (with caching, pipelining, PUT, POST, Digest Authentication, deflate, etc), MySQL logging, FTP, HTML/4, XML (expat), RDF (SiRPAC), and much more. The purpose of libwww is to serve as a testbed for protocol experiments.
w3c-libwww-5.4.0: description + notes
This build of libwww does not contain support for
WAIS
orWebDAV
.Developers intending to use this distribution for application development should be sure to read the information in FAQ 3.8.
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