9. WEB software

9.1 Reference libraries

The Libwww reference library is a set of programming interfaces written in C. This library can be used to write programs such as browsers, servers, proxies and so on. Libwww is a component of the Web architecture and contains reference code for HTTP and other Internet protocols such as FTP, Gopher, News, WAIS and Telnet. It also contains a rudimentary parser for HTML. This library was designed and implemented at the end of 1992 and used by early Web software such as the Mosaic browser and the CERN Web server.

Libwww's current architecture is designed to allow new standards for data transport and representation to be taken into account, without modifying Libwww's most internal modules. For systems that support dynamic link editing, it...