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| author | joe <joe@61a7d7f5-40b7-0310-9c16-bb0ea8cb1845> | 2004-10-02 18:47:02 +0000 |
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| committer | joe <joe@61a7d7f5-40b7-0310-9c16-bb0ea8cb1845> | 2004-10-02 18:47:02 +0000 |
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| download | neon-0294ff3d3282d1b1c5497f00ea25e5e55e6f4338.tar.gz | |
Import neon 0.24.0 to begin 0.24.x branch.
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@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ + +neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C language API. +Bindings for other languages may also be available, see the web site +for more details. + +Mailing list: neon@webdav.org || Web site: http://www.webdav.org/neon/ + +WARNING: THE NEON API IS NOT YET STABLE. + +Current features: + + - High-level interface to HTTP and WebDAV methods. + - Low-level interface to HTTP request handling, to allow implementing + new methods easily. + - Persistent connection support (HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/1.0 aware) + - Basic and digest authentication (RFC2617) (including auth-int, md5-sess) + - Proxy support (including basic/digest authentication) + - SSL/TLS support using OpenSSL (including client certificate support) + - Generic WebDAV 207 XML response handling mechanism + - XML parsing using expat or libxml (1.x or 2.x) parser + - Easy generation of error messages from 207 error responses + - Basic HTTP/1.1 methods: GET, PUT, HEAD, OPTIONS, conditional PUT + - WebDAV resource manipulation: MOVE, COPY, DELETE, MKCOL. + - WebDAV metadata support: set and remove properties (PROPPATCH), query + any set of properties (PROPFIND). + - WebDAV locking support + - Autoconf macros supplied for easily embedding neon directly inside + an application source tree. + +Provides lower-level interfaces to directly implement new HTTP +methods, and higher-level interfaces so that you don't have to worry +about the lower-level stuff. + +neon is licensed under the GNU Library GPL; see src/COPYING.LIB for +full details. The manual is licensed under the terms of the GNU FDL; +see doc/fdl.sgml or the generated documentation. The autoconf macros +in the "macros" directory are under a more liberal license, see each +file for details. The test suite is licensed under the GNU GPL; see +test/COPYING for full details. + +neon is Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Joe Orton +Portions are: +Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Tommi Komulainen <Tommi.Komulainen@iki.fi> +Copyright (C) 1999-2000, Peter Boos <pedib@colorfullife.com> +Copyright (C) 1991, 1995, 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |