Package: libwww-dev (5.3.2-9)

The W3C WWW library - development files

libwww is a highly modular, general-purpose client side Web API written in C for Unix and Windows (Win32). It's well suited for both small and large applications, like browser/editors, robots, batch tools, etc. Pluggable modules provided with libwww include complete HTTP/1.1 (with caching, pipelining, PUT, POST, Digest Authentication, deflate, etc), MySQL logging, FTP, HTML/4, XML (expat), RDF (SiRPAC), and much more.

Unlike other libraries for web access, libwww can use a single select() loop to wait for multiple simultaneous connections. With glibwww, the libwww event loop can be integrated into the glib event loop, making it very easy to develop GTK+ web applications.

It is quite difficult to write programs that use libwww, due to its complexity. If you do not need its advanced features, have a look at libcurl.