# Libwww - the W3C Sample Code Library

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Libwww is a general-purpose Web API written in C for Unix and Windows (Win32). With a highly extensible and layered API, it can accommodate many different types of applications including clients, robots, etc. The purpose of libwww is to provide a highly optimized HTTP sample implementation as well as other Internet protocols and to serve as a testbed for protocol experiments.

- Upcoming libwww Release 5.2 Nov 1, 1998 - help pre-release testing!
- How can YOU help developing libwww?
- Looking for Win32 binaries? Vladimir Kozlov most kindly provides libwww binaries from the IDM Web site
- Browse the libwww CVS repository and check out the latest edits

@(#) $Id: Overview.html,v 1.124 1998/10/26 22:30:51 frystyk Exp $

## News, Updates, and Events

September 24, 1998
  New binary version of the Web Commander made available. This version avoids the lost update problem
September 14, 1998
  The latest CVS version of libwww supports HTTP/1.1, rev 05
September 1, 1998
  The number of people having checked out libwww from CVS exceeds 300!
June 1, 1998
  The libwww cvs repository log can now be browsed online.
May 21, 1998
  The libwww repository is now available to the public - come and try it out. The hope is that this will speed up development and deployment of new features.
March 27, 1998
  Try out the latest Windows based PUT Tool - a small Windows Widget that can be the start to something big :)
March 25, 1998: Libwww Version 5.1l available for HTTP/1.1 testing! Check out the performance!
  This release is a "second generation" HTTP/1.1 implementation using persistent connections, pipelining, smart output buffering, and persistent caching. It is the code base that was used in the "Network Performance Effects of HTTP/1.1, CSS1, and PNG" paper
  - This release implements HTTP/1.1 Rev-02!
  - Check out the list of new features
  - Complete HTTP/1.1 compliant client side persistent cache manager
  - Support for zlib based decompression and regular expressions - can do really cool things in the Robot
See also the list of previous head lines and events

## Libwww Mailinglist

Please send all requests regarding libwww to <www-lib@w3.org>. This list is archived at findmail and in the W3C archives. Note, that you MUST be subscribed in order to post to the mailing list. See the information on mailing lists for details.

## Legal Stuff

- Libwww is covered by this copyright notice as well as the full W3C license
- Any IPR questions? Please check our Intellectual Property FAQ for answers
- If you like to get contribute changes so that they can be incorporated into our code base then please fill out the Corrections, Modifications, and Patches form and send it to us. Otherwise we can not use the patch!

## Authors and Contributors

The development of libwww depends on YOU! The more people who are contributing and helping the development, the more useful the code base gets. Check out the list of collaborators who provide invaluable contributions to the libwww code base and find out how you can help!

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
  Designed and implemented libwww from version 2.17 up until version 5.1
Tim Berners-Lee and Jean-Francois Groff
  Came up with the initial design and implementation of libwww

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