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11: <p><a href="../"><img alt="W3C" src="../Icons/WWW/w3c_home" border="0"
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1.130 frystyk 14:
15: <h1>Libwww - the W3C Sample Code Library</h1>
1.132 frystyk 16:
17: <p align="center"><a href="#News">News</a> | <a href="Activity.html">Why
18: libwww?</a> | <a name="Installation" href="Distribution.html">Get it!</a> | <a
1.133 renaudb 19: href="../INSTALL.html">Installation</a> | <a href="Changes">Latest updates</a>
20: | <a href="User/ReleaseNotes.html">Release Notes</a> | <a
1.130 frystyk 21: href="User/">Documentation</a> | <a href="#Forums">Mailing list</a> | <a
22: href="#Legal">Legal</a> | <a href="#Authors">Authors</a> & <a
23: href="Collaborators.html">Hackers</a></p>
1.132 frystyk 24:
25: <p></p>
1.130 frystyk 26:
27: <div class="intro">
28:
1.131 frystyk 29: Libwww is a general-purpose client side Web API written in C for <a
1.130 frystyk 30: href="User/Platform/">Unix and Windows (Win32)</a>. With a highly extensible
1.131 frystyk 31: and layered API, it can accommodate many different types of client
32: applications including clients, robots, etc. The purpose of libwww is to
33: provide a <a href="../Protocols/HTTP/Performance/Pipeline.html">highly
34: optimized HTTP</a> sample implementation as well as other Internet protocols
35: and to serve as a testbed for protocol experiments.
1.130 frystyk 36: <ul>
37: <li>
1.137 ! frystyk 38: <big><strong>Apr 15 1999:</strong> <a href="User/ReleaseNotes.html#5.2.8">libwww 5.2.8 is out</a> - <a
1.136 frystyk 39: href="Distribution.html">come get it</a> - now also as <a
1.137 ! frystyk 40: href="Distribution.html#Source">RPMs</a>!</big>
1.134 frystyk 41: </li>
42: <li>
43: <strong>Apr 6 1999:</strong> <strong>SSL NOTICE:</strong> Because of US
1.133 renaudb 44: regulations on encryption, we don't believe we can distribute Olga's glue code
45: between openSSL and libwww. I hope to have a definitive answer on what is
46: allowed and what is not very soon.
47: </li>
48: <li>
49: <strong>Apr 3, 1999:</strong> Check out the <a
50: href="Collaborators.html#Collaborators">libwww hall of fame</a> - truly cool
51: hackers!
1.132 frystyk 52: </li>
53: <li>
1.133 renaudb 54: <strong>Apr 3, 1999:</strong> Olga Antropova: <a
55: href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-lib/1999AprJun/0016.html">SSL
56: transport in libwww</a> - help testing!
1.132 frystyk 57: </li>
58: <li>
1.133 renaudb 59: <strong>Apr 3, 1999:</strong> Raffaele Sena: Added HTML4.0 support in <a
60: href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-lib/1999AprJun/0015.html">libwww
61: HTML parser</a>
1.131 frystyk 62: </li>
1.132 frystyk 63: </ul>
1.133 renaudb 64:
65: <p>Nearby: <a href="User/Applications.html">Sample Applications</a> | <a
66: href="http://dev.w3.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/libwww/">CVS Repository</a> | <a
67: href="User/ToDo.html">ToDo</a> | <a href="User/Guide/">Modules and
68: Packages</a></p>
1.132 frystyk 69: </div>
70:
71: <p></p>
72: <hr>
73:
74:
75: <h2><a name="News">News, Updates, and Events</a></h2>
76: <ul>
1.131 frystyk 77: <li>
1.133 renaudb 78: <strong>Mar 31: 1999:</strong> Interested in helping porting to Macs? <a
79: href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-lib/1999JanMar/0411.html">Follow
80: the dicussions</a>!
81: </li>
82: <li>
83: <strong>Mar 4, 1999:</strong> Daniel Veillard has put up a cool new version of
84: <a href="http://dev.w3.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/libwww/">cvsweb which provides Web
85: access</a> to the <a href="cvs.html">libwww CVS codebase</a>
86: </li>
87: <li>
1.130 frystyk 88: <strong>Feb 24, 1999:</strong> Release of <a
89: href="Distribution.html#tar">libwww 5.2.6</a> with lots of new features
90: including:
91: <ul>
92: <li>
93: John Punin's integration with <a href="src/HTXML.html">Integration</a> James
94: Clark's <a href="http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html">Expat XML parser</a>,
95: </li>
96: <li>
97: Jose Kahan's <a
98: href="http://www.egroups.com/list/www-lib/703.html">client-side Digest
99: Authentication implementation</a>,
100: </li>
101: <li>
102: <a
103: href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-lib/1999JanMar/0195.html">Tiny,
104: Web browser based on libwww with only a strict minimum of HTTP and HTML in
105: only 170K on linux (stripped) into libwww.</a>
106: </li>
107: </ul>
108: </li>
109: <li>
110: <strong>Feb 23, 1999:</strong> <a href="src/HTXML.html">Integration</a> of
111: James Clark's <a href="http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html">Expat XML
112: parser</a> into libwww. Also check out the new <a href="Examples/#XML">XML
113: sample application</a> demonstrating how the integration works.
114: </li>
115: <li>
116: <strong>Feb 16, 1999:</strong> New set of <a
117: href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-lib/1999JanMar/0231.html">MSVC
118: makefiles for all of the libwww and its sample applications</a>
119: </li>
120: <li>
121: <strong>Feb 9, 1999:</strong><a
122: href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-lib/1999JanMar/0195.html">New
123: tiny, Web browser with only a strict minimum of HTTP and HTML committed to
124: CVS</a> in only 170K on linux (stripped)
125: </li>
126: <li>
127: <strong>Jan 6, 1999</strong>: Improved <a href="src/HTML.html">libwww HTML
128: parser</a> and <a href="src/HText.html">new callback interface</a> committed
129: to <a href="cvs.html">CVS</a>
130: </li>
131: </ul>
132:
1.132 frystyk 133: See also the <a href="OldEvents.html">libwww timeline</a> for past news items
134: and events
135:
1.130 frystyk 136: <h2><a name="Forums">Libwww Mailinglist</a></h2>
1.132 frystyk 137:
138: <p>Please send all requests regarding libwww to <<a
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140: public mailing list. This list is <a
141: href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-lib/">archived at W3C</a> and
142: also at <a href="http://www.findmail.com/list/www-lib/">findmail</a>. Note,
143: you <b>MUST</b> be subscribed in order to post to the mailing list. Follow
144: these shortcuts to <a
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148: unsubscribe</strong></a> or see the <a href="../Mail/Request.html">information
149: on mailing lists</a> for more details.</p>
150:
151: <h2><a name="Legal">Legal Stuff</a></h2>
152: <ul>
153: <li>
154: Libwww is covered by this <a
155: href="../Consortium/Legal/libwww-copyright-notice-19980720.html">copyright
156: notice</a> as well as the <a
157: href="/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software.html">full W3C license</a>
158: </li>
159: <li>
160: Any IPR questions? Please check our <a
161: href="/Consortium/Legal/IPR-FAQ.html">Intellectual Property FAQ for
162: answers</a>
163: </li>
164: <li>
165: If you like to get contribute changes so that they can be incorporated into
166: our code base then please fill out the <a href="../PATCHES.html">Corrections,
167: Modifications, and Patches</a> form and send it to us. Otherwise we can not
168: use the patch!
169: </li>
170: </ul>
171:
172: <h2><a name="Authors">Authors</a></h2>
1.132 frystyk 173:
174: <p>The development of libwww depends on <b>YOU</b>! The more people who
1.122 frystyk 175: are contributing and helping the development, the more useful the code
1.130 frystyk 176: base gets. Check out the <a href="Collaborators.html"><b>list of libwww
177: hackers</b></a> who provide invaluable contributions to the libwww code base
178: and find out how you can help!</p>
179: <dl>
180: <dt><a href="/People/Frystyk/">Henrik Frystyk Nielsen</a></dt>
181: <dd>
182: Designed and implemented libwww from version 2.17 up to the latest version
183: </dd>
184: <dt><a href="../People/#BernersLee">Tim Berners-Lee</a> and <a
185: href="../People.html#Groff">Jean-Francois Groff</a></dt>
186: <dd>
187: Came up with the initial design and implementation of libwww
188: </dd>
189: </dl>
1.132 frystyk 190:
191: <p></p>
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193:
194: <address>
195: <a href="/People/Frystyk/">Henrik Frystyk Nielsen</a>,<br>
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