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Guido van Rossumecde7811995-03-28 13:35:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1\chapter{Internet and WWW Services}
Guido van Rossum86cb0921995-03-20 12:59:56 +0000[diff] [blame]2\nodename{Internet and WWW}
Fred Drake710c0351998-02-18 15:47:17 +0000[diff] [blame]3\label{www}
Guido van Rossuma8db1df1995-02-16 16:29:46 +0000[diff] [blame]4\index{WWW}
Guido van Rossum470be141995-03-17 16:07:09 +0000[diff] [blame]5\index{Internet}
6\index{World-Wide Web}
Guido van Rossuma8db1df1995-02-16 16:29:46 +0000[diff] [blame]7
8The modules described in this chapter provide various services to
9World-Wide Web (WWW) clients and/or services, and a few modules
10related to news and email. They are all implemented in Python. Some
11of these modules require the presence of the system-dependent module
Fred Drakea8090641998-01-13 19:10:02 +0000[diff] [blame]12\code{sockets}\refbimodindex{socket}, which is currently only fully
13supported on \UNIX{} and Windows NT. Here is an overview:
Guido van Rossuma8db1df1995-02-16 16:29:46 +0000[diff] [blame]14
15\begin{description}
16
Guido van Rossumd6304d01995-02-27 17:51:26 +0000[diff] [blame]17\item[cgi]
18--- Common Gateway Interface, used to interpret forms in server-side
19scripts.
20
Guido van Rossuma8db1df1995-02-16 16:29:46 +0000[diff] [blame]21\item[urllib]
22--- Open an arbitrary object given by URL (requires sockets).
23
24\item[httplib]
25--- HTTP protocol client (requires sockets).
26
27\item[ftplib]
28--- FTP protocol client (requires sockets).
29
30\item[gopherlib]
31--- Gopher protocol client (requires sockets).
32
33\item[nntplib]
34--- NNTP protocol client (requires sockets).
35
36\item[urlparse]
37--- Parse a URL string into a tuple (addressing scheme identifier, network
38location, path, parameters, query string, fragment identifier).
39
Guido van Rossuma8db1df1995-02-16 16:29:46 +0000[diff] [blame]40\item[sgmllib]
41--- Only as much of an SGML parser as needed to parse HTML.
42
Fred Drakee1980ed1996-10-09 14:36:54 +0000[diff] [blame]43\item[htmllib]
Guido van Rossum2974f0f1997-11-18 15:30:40 +0000[diff] [blame]44--- A parser for HTML documents.
45
46\item[xmllib]
47--- A parser for XML documents.
Fred Drakee1980ed1996-10-09 14:36:54 +0000[diff] [blame]48
Fred Drake08d301e1996-10-08 21:54:06 +0000[diff] [blame]49\item[formatter]
50--- Generic output formatter and device interface.
51
Guido van Rossuma8db1df1995-02-16 16:29:46 +0000[diff] [blame]52\item[rfc822]
Fred Drakec5891241998-02-09 19:16:20 +0000[diff] [blame]53--- Parse \rfc{822} style mail headers.
Guido van Rossuma8db1df1995-02-16 16:29:46 +0000[diff] [blame]54
55\item[mimetools]
56--- Tools for parsing MIME style message bodies.
57
Fred Drake4b3f0311996-12-13 22:04:31 +0000[diff] [blame]58\item[binhex]
59--- Encode and decode files in binhex4 format.
60
61\item[uu]
62--- Encode and decode files in uuencode format.
63
64\item[binascii]
65--- Tools for converting between binary and various ascii-encoded binary
66representation
67
68\item[xdrlib]
Fred Drakec5891241998-02-09 19:16:20 +0000[diff] [blame]69--- The External Data Representation Standard as described in \rfc{1014},
Fred Drake4b3f0311996-12-13 22:04:31 +0000[diff] [blame]70written by Sun Microsystems, Inc. June 1987.
71
Guido van Rossum20af95b1997-03-25 22:01:35 +0000[diff] [blame]72\item[mailcap]
Fred Drakec5891241998-02-09 19:16:20 +0000[diff] [blame]73--- Mailcap file handling. See \rfc{1524}.
Guido van Rossum20af95b1997-03-25 22:01:35 +0000[diff] [blame]74
Guido van Rossume76b7a81997-04-27 21:25:52 +0000[diff] [blame]75\item[base64]
76--- Encode/decode binary files using the MIME base64 encoding.
77
78\item[quopri]
79--- Encode/decode binary files using the MIME quoted-printable encoding.
80
Guido van Rossumb40f2a71997-06-02 17:34:40 +0000[diff] [blame]81\item[SocketServer]
82--- A framework for network servers.
83
84\item[mailbox]
85--- Read various mailbox formats.
86
Guido van Rossumfd16ca41997-07-30 22:05:07 +0000[diff] [blame]87\item[mimify]
88--- Mimification and unmimification of mail messages.
89
Guido van Rossum1f359771997-12-30 23:42:27 +0000[diff] [blame]90\item[BaseHTTPServer]
91--- Basic HTTP server (base class for SimpleHTTPServer and CGIHTTPServer).
92
Guido van Rossuma8db1df1995-02-16 16:29:46 +0000[diff] [blame]93\end{description}