- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 10:09:13 -0400
- To: www-lib@w3.org
Along with the recent release 5.1m of the W3C C based libwww [1] sample library, W3C is emphasizing its commitment to easy, unconstrained access to sample code for the Web community by providing DIRECT READ ACCESS to the libwww CVS source code repository [2] and all its sample applications: The libwww Mini Robot [3] A very fast Web walker showing how to use libwww for building robots. Supports SQL logging, regular expressions, and much more The Win32 Web Commander [4] Windows 95/NT GUI PUT tool where you can control metadata like type, language, etc. Command Line Tool [5] This application which shows how to use libwww for building simple batch mode tools for accessing the Web. Can be used to do PUT, POST, DELETE and much more Line Mode Browser [6] The Line Mode Browser is a character-based Web browser developed for use on terminals. It is an example of a client application using the libwww. A PICS Client Library [7] Useful for writing PICS enabled clients Although the libwww code has been freely available to everybody since the early days of 1991, W3C hope that this much more direct read access to the code base will spur new development and feedback in the Web community. In other words, we need *YOU* to help developing libwww and to fix bugs! If you are interested in helping then sign up by sending a mail to this list explaining what you are already or will be working on and I will add you to the list [8]. I am looking for people who would like to help maintaining the sample applications as well as core modules like HTTP, FTP, etc. Of course, new sample applications are also welcome! When providing code for libwww, please make sure that you follow the code style guide lines [9] - remember this is a collaborative effort and hence rules are very important! The purpose of Libwww is to provide a sample implementation of HTTP and other Internet protocols and to serve as a testbed for protocol experiments. As such it has been essential in the design and implementation of the HTTP/1.1 specification as well as the HTTP-NG project. The forum for discussion is THIS LIST! Henrik [1] http://www.w3.org/Library/ [2] http://www.w3.org/Library/cvs.html [3] http://www.w3.org/Robot/ [4] http://www.w3.org/WinCom/ [5] http://www.w3.org/ComLine/ [6] http://www.w3.org/LineMode/ [7] http://www.w3.org/PICS-client/ [8] http://www.w3.org/Library/Collaborators.html [9] http://www.w3.org/Library/User/Style/ -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk
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