| \chapter{Internet and WWW Services} |
| \nodename{Internet and WWW} |
| \index{WWW} |
| \index{Internet} |
| \index{World-Wide Web} |
| |
| The modules described in this chapter provide various services to |
| World-Wide Web (WWW) clients and/or services, and a few modules |
| related to news and email. They are all implemented in Python. Some |
| of these modules require the presence of the system-dependent module |
| \code{sockets}, which is currently only fully supported on Unix and |
| Windows NT. Here is an overview: |
| |
| \begin{description} |
| |
| \item[cgi] |
| --- Common Gateway Interface, used to interpret forms in server-side |
| scripts. |
| |
| \item[urllib] |
| --- Open an arbitrary object given by URL (requires sockets). |
| |
| \item[httplib] |
| --- HTTP protocol client (requires sockets). |
| |
| \item[ftplib] |
| --- FTP protocol client (requires sockets). |
| |
| \item[gopherlib] |
| --- Gopher protocol client (requires sockets). |
| |
| \item[nntplib] |
| --- NNTP protocol client (requires sockets). |
| |
| \item[urlparse] |
| --- Parse a URL string into a tuple (addressing scheme identifier, network |
| location, path, parameters, query string, fragment identifier). |
| |
| \item[sgmllib] |
| --- Only as much of an SGML parser as needed to parse HTML. |
| |
| \item[htmllib] |
| --- A parser for HTML documents. |
| |
| \item[xmllib] |
| --- A parser for XML documents. |
| |
| \item[formatter] |
| --- Generic output formatter and device interface. |
| |
| \item[rfc822] |
| --- Parse RFC-822 style mail headers. |
| |
| \item[mimetools] |
| --- Tools for parsing MIME style message bodies. |
| |
| \item[binhex] |
| --- Encode and decode files in binhex4 format. |
| |
| \item[uu] |
| --- Encode and decode files in uuencode format. |
| |
| \item[binascii] |
| --- Tools for converting between binary and various ascii-encoded binary |
| representation |
| |
| \item[xdrlib] |
| --- The External Data Representation Standard as described in RFC 1014, |
| written by Sun Microsystems, Inc. June 1987. |
| |
| \item[mailcap] |
| --- Mailcap file handling. See RFC 1524. |
| |
| \item[base64] |
| --- Encode/decode binary files using the MIME base64 encoding. |
| |
| \item[quopri] |
| --- Encode/decode binary files using the MIME quoted-printable encoding. |
| |
| \item[SocketServer] |
| --- A framework for network servers. |
| |
| \item[mailbox] |
| --- Read various mailbox formats. |
| |
| \item[mimify] |
| --- Mimification and unmimification of mail messages. |
| |
| \item[BaseHTTPServer] |
| --- Basic HTTP server (base class for SimpleHTTPServer and CGIHTTPServer). |
| |
| \end{description} |