Libwww
Encyclopedia : L : LI : LIB : Libwww
Libwww is a highly-modular client-side web API written in C for Unix and Windows.
It can be used for both large and small applications including: browsers/editors, robots and batch tools. There are pluggable modules provided with Libwww which include complete HTTP/1.1 with caching, pipelining, POST, Digest Authentication, deflate, etc.
The purpose of libwww is to serve as a testbed for protocol experiments.
Tim Berners-Lee created Libwww in November 1992 in order to demonstrate the potential of the World Wide Web. Applications such as the widely-used command-line text browser Lynx and the Mosaic web browser use Libwww.
Libwww was released free and is now Open Source after being moved to W3C.
Since it is Open Source, anyone can contribute to Libwww and thus ensure it keeps evolving to a more useful application.
External links
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.