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1 \chapter{Internet and WWW Services}
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2 \nodename{Internet and WWW}
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3 \index{WWW}
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4 \index{Internet}
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5 \index{World-Wide Web}
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7 The modules described in this chapter provide various services to
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8 World-Wide Web (WWW) clients and/or services, and a few modules
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9 related to news and email. They are all implemented in Python. Some
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10 of these modules require the presence of the system-dependent module
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11 \code{sockets}, which is currently only fully supported on Unix and
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12 Windows NT. Here is an overview:
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14 \begin{description}
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16 \item[cgi]
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17 --- Common Gateway Interface, used to interpret forms in server-side
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18 scripts.
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20 \item[urllib]
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21 --- Open an arbitrary object given by URL (requires sockets).
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23 \item[httplib]
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24 --- HTTP protocol client (requires sockets).
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26 \item[ftplib]
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27 --- FTP protocol client (requires sockets).
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29 \item[gopherlib]
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30 --- Gopher protocol client (requires sockets).
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32 \item[nntplib]
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33 --- NNTP protocol client (requires sockets).
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35 \item[urlparse]
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36 --- Parse a URL string into a tuple (addressing scheme identifier, network
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37 location, path, parameters, query string, fragment identifier).
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39 \item[sgmllib]
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40 --- Only as much of an SGML parser as needed to parse HTML.
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42 \item[htmllib]
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43 --- A (slow) parser for HTML documents.
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45 \item[formatter]
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46 --- Generic output formatter and device interface.
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48 \item[rfc822]
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49 --- Parse RFC-822 style mail headers.
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51 \item[mimetools]
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52 --- Tools for parsing MIME style message bodies.
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54 \item[binhex]
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55 --- Encode and decode files in binhex4 format.
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57 \item[uu]
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58 --- Encode and decode files in uuencode format.
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60 \item[binascii]
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61 --- Tools for converting between binary and various ascii-encoded binary
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62 representation
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64 \item[xdrlib]
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65 --- The External Data Representation Standard as described in RFC 1014,
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66 written by Sun Microsystems, Inc. June 1987.
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68 \item[mailcap]
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69 --- Mailcap file handling. See RFC 1524.
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71 \item[base64]
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72 --- Encode/decode binary files using the MIME base64 encoding.
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75 --- Encode/decode binary files using the MIME quoted-printable encoding.
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77 \item[SocketServer]
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78 --- A framework for network servers.
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80 \item[mailbox]
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81 --- Read various mailbox formats.
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83 \end{description}