2 neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C language API.
4 Mailing list: neon@lists.manyfish.co.uk || Web site: http://www.webdav.org/neon/
6 PLEASE NOTE: The neon API is subject to backwards-incompatible change
7 over minor releases (0.23.x -> 0.24.x) until the 1.0.0 release, but
8 maintains source and binary backwards compatibility through patch
9 releases (0.24.0 -> 0.24.7).
13 - High-level interface to HTTP and WebDAV methods.
14 - Low-level interface to HTTP request handling, to allow implementing
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.
31 Provides lower-level interfaces to directly implement new HTTP
32 methods, and higher-level interfaces so that you don't have to worry
33 about the lower-level stuff.
35 The neon library source code is licensed under the GNU Library GPL;
36 see src/COPYING.LIB for full details. The manual and test suite are
37 licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL; see test/COPYING for terms.
38 The autoconf macros in the "macros" directory are under a less
39 restrictive license, see each file for details.
41 neon is Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Joe Orton <joe@manyfish.co.uk>
43 Copyright (C) Aleix Conchillo Flaque <aleix@member.fsf.org>
44 Copyright (C) Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
45 Copyright (C) Arun Garg <arung@pspl.co.in>
46 Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
47 Copyright (C) Free Software Foundation, Inc.
48 Copyright (C) Henrik Holst <henrik.holst2@gmail.com>
49 Copyright (C) Jiang Lei <tristone@deluxe.ocn.ne.jp>
50 Copyright (C) Kai Sommerfeld <kso@openoffice.org>
51 Copyright (C) Karl Ove Hufthammer.
52 Copyright (C) Michael Sobolev
53 Copyright (C) Nobuyuki Tsuchimura <tutimura@nn.iij4u.or.jp>
54 Copyright (C) Sylvain Glaize <mokona@puupuu.org>
55 Copyright (C) Thomas Schultz <tststs@gmx.de>
56 Copyright (C) Vladimir Berezniker @ http://public.xdi.org/=vmpn
57 Copyright (C) Yves Martin <ymartin59@free.fr>