1 2neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C language API. 3 4Mailing list: neon@lists.manyfish.co.uk || Web site: http://www.webdav.org/neon/ 5 6PLEASE NOTE: The neon API is subject to backwards-incompatible change 7over minor releases (0.23.x -> 0.24.x) until the 1.0.0 release, but 8maintains source and binary backwards compatibility through patch 9releases (0.24.0 -> 0.24.7). 10 11Current features: 12 13 - High-level interface to HTTP and WebDAV methods. 14 - Low-level interface to HTTP request handling, to allow implementing 15 new methods easily. 16 - Persistent connection support (HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/1.0 aware) 17 - Basic and digest authentication (RFC2617) (including auth-int, md5-sess) 18 - Proxy support (including basic/digest authentication) 19 - SSL/TLS support using OpenSSL (including client certificate support) 20 - Generic WebDAV 207 XML response handling mechanism 21 - XML parsing using expat or libxml (1.x or 2.x) parser 22 - Easy generation of error messages from 207 error responses 23 - Basic HTTP/1.1 methods: GET, PUT, HEAD, OPTIONS, conditional PUT 24 - WebDAV resource manipulation: MOVE, COPY, DELETE, MKCOL. 25 - WebDAV metadata support: set and remove properties (PROPPATCH), query 26 any set of properties (PROPFIND). 27 - WebDAV locking support 28 - Autoconf macros supplied for easily embedding neon directly inside 29 an application source tree. 30 31Provides lower-level interfaces to directly implement new HTTP 32methods, and higher-level interfaces so that you don't have to worry 33about the lower-level stuff. 34 35The neon library source code is licensed under the GNU Library GPL; 36see src/COPYING.LIB for full details. The manual and test suite are 37licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL; see test/COPYING for terms. 38The autoconf macros in the "macros" directory are under a less 39restrictive license, see each file for details. 40 41neon is Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Joe Orton <joe@manyfish.co.uk> 42Portions are: 43Copyright (C) Aleix Conchillo Flaque <aleix@member.fsf.org> 44Copyright (C) Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 45Copyright (C) Arun Garg <arung@pspl.co.in> 46Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> 47Copyright (C) Free Software Foundation, Inc. 48Copyright (C) Henrik Holst <henrik.holst2@gmail.com> 49Copyright (C) Jiang Lei <tristone@deluxe.ocn.ne.jp> 50Copyright (C) Kai Sommerfeld <kso@openoffice.org> 51Copyright (C) Karl Ove Hufthammer. 52Copyright (C) Michael Sobolev 53Copyright (C) Nobuyuki Tsuchimura <tutimura@nn.iij4u.or.jp> 54Copyright (C) Sylvain Glaize <mokona@puupuu.org> 55Copyright (C) Thomas Schultz <tststs@gmx.de> 56Copyright (C) Vladimir Berezniker @ http://public.xdi.org/=vmpn 57Copyright (C) Yves Martin <ymartin59@free.fr> 58