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2neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C language API.
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4Mailing list: neon@lists.manyfish.co.uk || Web site: http://www.webdav.org/neon/
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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).
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11Current features:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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>
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