Web Commander

Web Commander

The Web Commander is a Win32 application for getting, saving, and deleting documents remotely using HTTP/1.1. It allows the user to explicitly control the metadata describing the document to save including the language, type, charset, etc.

The Web Commander is part of the the libwww - the W3C Sample Code Library and is available in both source and binary versions.

The Basics

Author(s): Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
Status: An example application for libwww.
Plans: New releases follow the releases of libwww with no exception.
Platforms: It runs on Win32 - it's a Windows specific GUI application
Getting the Source Code: The Web Commander comes as an integral part of the libwww distribution package but you can also get the binary version
Forums: Discussions on libwww and its example applications take place on <www-lib@w3.org> (archives). See the documentation for how to subscribe.

Binary Installation

Looking for Win32 binaries?: Vladimir Kozlov has made a really cool libwww installshield for Win32 which is available from the IDM Web site

Features

Save a document from local disk, another HTTP server, or an FTP server onto your HTTP/1.1 server
Delete and Get documents on your favorite HTTP/1.1 server
Explicit control over metadata describing the source that you are saving like language, charset, etc.
Support for version conflict detection - solves the lost update problem
Support for proxies including ssh tunnelling
See also the screen shots for samples and help

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen,
@(#) $Id: Overview.html,v 1.10 1998/12/05 17:50:33 frystyk Exp $