WWW Servers Respond to HTTP requests

WWW authoring Creating HTML, CGI

WWW robots and proxies Automatic processing of HTTP requests

Up to: World Wide Web - HTTP, HTML, standards, browsers, transfer utilities, servers, et al.

Sitescooper - Automatically retrieves the stories from several news websites, trims off extraneous HTML, and converts them into formats you can read on your Palm computing device for later reading on-the-move. {(L)GPL}

perl5 Parallel LWP User Agent for WWW access. p5-ParallelUA-2.49 Perl5 Parallel LWP User Agent for WWW access

a simple and fast HTML syntax checking package for perl 4 and perl 5. p5-HTML-QuickCheck-1.0b1 A simple and fast HTML syntax checking package for perl 4 and perl 5

NETamer - This PERL program, will provide users with a way to surf the Internet without being tracked via Cookies. Other options include: no ads, no Javascript, no CSS, no media, changing HTML to Text or XML, and reducing the HTML to 4.0, 3.0, 2.0, or 1.0. {(L)GPL}

Bookmark Manager - A simple bookmark tool with categories and descriptions in perl. Right, you have to cut and paste the URL. {(L)GPL}

Marcia - Marcia is a very basic web browser, written in Perl using Tk. It is mainly an excercise in learning the intricacies of Tk, and doesn't aim to be overly useful :-) The longterm plan is to make Marcia a help browser for the Tk version of Jessie. {(L)GPL}

GNUPlanet Browser - A Browser Built All In HTML And Java Script...a NeoPlanet Clone..Its Possible! I have been working on a Neoplanet Clone Built in HTML And JavaScript Also including features as Advance Searching & E-Mail Clients Built In Made in Perl Language. Such

Other Applications and Utilities

Inactive Orbits: (Not included on this page)

HTML::QuickCheck - Fast and simple HTML validation. [Perl] {oss}

perl5 HTML output stream class, and some markup utilities. p5-HTML-Stream-1.45 Perl5 HTML output stream class, and some markup utilities

SGMLS - Classes for use with the SGMLS and NSGMLS parsers. (SGML stands for Standard Generlized Markup Language. HTML is almost an example of an SGML.) [Perl] {oss}

The libwww Bundle - Contains eight big module sets related to the World Wide Web: HTML, LWP, MIME, WWW, HTTP, URI, File, and Font. See their entries elsewhere in this document. If you install the entire libwww bundle, you'll get them all. Do it. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::AsSubs - Functions that construct an HTML syntax tree. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::Base - Methods for building HTML tags. Obsoleted by many other modules. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::Embperl - Lets you embed Perl code in your HTML documents. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::Entities - Convert strings to/from valid HTML strings, which replace funky characters with special glyphs called HTML entities. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::FormatPS - Convert HTML to PostScript. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::FormatText - Convert HTML to plain text. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::HTML32 .dtd - The HTML definition. This isn't a module, just a plain document that you might find useful. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::ISOlat1.sgml - The ISO Latin 1 definition. This isn't a module, just a plain document that you might find useful. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::Parse - Parse HTML text. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::Parser - SGML parser class. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::PHTML - Embed Perl in HTML; suited for FastCGI and Apache/mod_perl. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::Simple - Yet another way of creating HTML. Not as robust as the libwww library. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::TreeBuilder - Parser that builds an HTML syntax tree. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::dtd2pm.pl - A Perl library file (not a module!) that generates the HTML parser in Perl automatically, by reading the HTML Document Type Definition (see HTML::HTML32.dtd). Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTTP::Headers - A class encapsulating HTTP message headers. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTTP::Message - A base class encapsulating HTTP messages. Used by HTTP::Request and HTTP::Response. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTTP::Negotiate - Implements the HTTP content negotiation algorithm, which lets browser and web server mutually agree on a content representation. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTTP::Request - Class encapsulating HTTP requests. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTTP::Response - Class encapsulating HTTP responses. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTTP::Status - Processes status codes sent over HTTP, e.g. "403 Forbidden", "4040 Not Found", or "402 Payment required". Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

LWP::UserAgent - Code that lets your program behave like a Web browser. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

Netscape::History - Parses the history files that Netscape leaves behind in your home directory. You did know about those, right? [Perl] {oss}

HTML::Element - Class for objects that represent HTML elements. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::LinkExtor - Extracts links from an HTML document. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

Other Libraries, Functions, and Components