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neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C language API.
Bindings for other languages may also be available, see the web site
for more details.

Mailing list: [e-mail]     ||    Web site: http://www.webdav.org/neon/

WARNING: THE NEON API IS NOT YET STABLE.

Current features:

 - High-level interface to HTTP and WebDAV methods.
 - Low-level interface to HTTP request handling, to allow implementing
   new methods easily.
 - Persistent connection support (HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/1.0 aware)
 - Basic and digest authentication (RFC2617) (including auth-int, md5-sess)
 - Proxy support (including basic/digest authentication)
 - SSL/TLS support using OpenSSL (including client certificate support)
 - Generic WebDAV 207 XML response handling mechanism
 - XML parsing using expat or libxml (1.x or 2.x) parser
 - Easy generation of error messages from 207 error responses
 - Basic HTTP/1.1 methods: GET, PUT, HEAD, OPTIONS, conditional PUT
 - WebDAV resource manipulation: MOVE, COPY, DELETE, MKCOL.
 - WebDAV metadata support: set and remove properties (PROPPATCH), query
   any set of properties (PROPFIND).
 - WebDAV locking support
 - Autoconf macros supplied for easily embedding neon directly inside 
   an application source tree.

Provides lower-level interfaces to directly implement new HTTP
methods, and higher-level interfaces so that you don't have to worry
about the lower-level stuff.

neon is licensed under the GNU Library GPL; see src/COPYING.LIB for
full details.  The manual is licensed under the terms of the GNU FDL;
see doc/fdl.sgml or the generated documentation.  The autoconf macros
in the "macros" directory are under a more liberal license, see each
file for details.  The test suite is licensed under the GNU GPL; see
test/COPYING for full details.

neon is Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Joe Orton
Portions are:
Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Tommi Komulainen <[e-mail]>
Copyright (C) 1999-2000, Peter Boos <[e-mail]>
Copyright (C) 1991, 1995, 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.