WWW Servers - Respond to HTTP requests

WWW robots and proxies - Automatic processing of HTTP requests

WWW Browsers - User interface for accessing the WWW

WWW authoring - Creating HTML, CGI

RFC2413 Dublin Core Metadata for Resource Discovery. [c. 1998/09/01]

RFC2397 The "data" URL scheme. [c. 1998/08/01]

RFC2396 Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax. [c. 1998/08/01]

RFC2388 Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data. [c. 1998/08/01]

RFC2384 POP URL Scheme. [c. 1998/08/01]

RFC2376 XML Media Types. [c. 1998/07/01]

RFC2369 The Use of URLs as Meta-Syntax for Core Mail List Commands and their Transport through Message Header Fields. [c. 1998/07/01]

RFC2368 The mailto URL scheme. [c. 1998/07/01]

RFC2318 The text/css Media Type. [c. 1998/03/01]

RFC2310 The Safe Response Header Field. [c. 1998/04/01]

RFC2296 HTTP Remote Variant Selection Algorithm -- RVSA/1.0. [c. 1998/03/01]

RFC2295 Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP. [c. 1998/03/01]

RFC2291 Requirements for a Distributed Authoring and Versioning Protocol for the World Wide Web. [c. 1998/02/01]

RFC2288 Using Existing Bibliographic Identifiers as Uniform Resource Names. [c. 1998/02/01]

RFC2276 Architectural Principles of Uniform Resource Name Resolution. [c. 1998/01/01]

RFC2255 The LDAP URL Format. [c. 1997/12/01]

RFC2227 Simple Hit-Metering and Usage-Limiting for HTTP. [c. 1997/10/01]

RFC2224 NFS URL Scheme. [c. 1997/10/01]

RFC2169 A Trivial Convention for using HTTP in URN Resolution. [c. 1997/06/01]

RFC2168 Resolution of Uniform Resource Identifiers using the Domain Name System. [c. 1997/06/01]

RFC2145 Use and Interpretation of HTTP Version Numbers. [c. 1997/05/01]

RFC2141 URN Syntax. [c. 1997/05/01]

RFC2122 VEMMI URL Specification. [c. 1997/03/01]

RFC2392 Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators. [c. 1998/08/01]

RFC2109 HTTP State Management Mechanism. [c. 1997/02/01]

RFC2084 Considerations for Web Transaction Security. [c. 1997/01/01]

RFC2079 Definition of an X.500 Attribute Type and an Object Class to Hold Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). [c. 1997/01/01]

RFC2070 Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language. [c. 1997/01/01]

RFC2069 An Extension to HTTP : Digest Access Authentication. [c. 1997/01/01]

RFC2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1. [c. 1997/01/01]

RFC2056 Uniform Resource Locators for Z39.50. [c. 1996/11/01]

RFC1980 A Proposed Extension to HTML : Client-Side Image Maps. [c. 1996/08/01]

RFC1945 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0. [c. 1996/05/01]

RFC1942 HTML Tables. [c. 1996/05/01]

RFC1867 Form-based File Upload in HTML. [c. 1995/11/01]

RFC1866 Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0. [c. 1995/11/01]

RFC1738 Uniform Resource Locators (URL). [c. 1994/12/01]

RFC1737 Functional Requirements for Uniform Resource Names. [c. 1994/12/01]

RFC1736 Functional Recommendations for Internet Resource Locators. [c. 1995/02/01]

RFC1728 Resource Transponders. [c. 1994/12/01]

RFC1727 A Vision of an Integrated Internet Information Service. [c. 1994/12/01]

RFC1630 Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW: A Unifying Syntax for the Expression of Names and Addresses of Objects on the Network as used in the World-Wide Web. [c. 1994/06/01]

[comp.text.sgml] Frequently Asked Questions

[alt.hypertext] Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ list)

World Wide Web Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), Introduction

HTML 4 Specification (W3C approved)

HTML (Netscape approved)

URL - Internet Explorer URL files

Cascading Style Sheets 2 (CSS )

Web and Internet Search Engine FAQ Ver 3.9

Inactive Orbits: (Not included on this page)

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[Complete List of Books]

See Also

Inactive Orbits: (Not included on this page)

Web-Analysis: Stripping Away the Hype ( Michael Monticino ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1998-12)

ObjectSpace DXML No Longer Free? [ 2000/07/14]

What Is XML And Why Should I Care? [ 2000/03/24]

Questions and Answers

p5-HTML-SimpleParse-0.10 - HTML::SimpleParse - a bare-bones HTML parser

ja-another-htmllint-20010911 - Another HTML-lint (all messages are written in Japanese)

p5-HTML-Clean-0.8 - Cleans up HTML code for web browsers, not humans

htmlsection-1.0 - Insert section numbers in HTML and make a table of contents

krss-2.6 - KDE Rich Site Summary viewer

p5-RDF-Notation3-0.40 - RDF Notation3 parser

raptor-0.9.3 - RDF Parser Toolkit for Redland

redland-0.9.10 - A high-level interface for RDF

demoroniser-1.0 - Correct moronic and gratuitously incompatible HTML from MS applications

p5-HTML-TableExtract-1.07 - Perl extension for extracting the text contained in tables within an HTML document

p5-HTML-Tagset-3.03 - Some useful data table in parsing HTML

ruby-html-parser-19990912p2 - HTML-parser package for Ruby

ruby-xslt-0.0.2 - An XSLT processor in pure Ruby

xhtml-1.0 - W3C's XHTML DTD

ruby-curl-0.0.1_2 - Ruby interface to libcurl

ruby-sablot-0.5.2_3 - Ruby interface to the Sablotron XSLT processor

p5-XML-RSS-0.97 - Perl extension to manage RDF Site Summary (RSS) files

smartdoc-1.0.0 - XML utility to create various documents

p5-URI-1.17 - Perl5 interface to Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) references

linux-libxml-1.4.0_1 - RPM of libxml

urlendec-1.0 - URL encoder and decoder

p5-URI-Sequin-1.1.1 - Extract information from the URLs of Search-Engines

p5-XML-Sablotron-0.80_1 - A Perl interface to the Sablotron XSLT processor

sgrep-0.99 - A 'grep' for structured text like SGML and HTML.

tidy-20000804 - Fixes and tidies up HTML files

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

weblint - Syntax and minimal style checker for HTML {Artistic}

HTMLDOC - Converts HTML to indexed HTML, PostScript, and PDF {GPL}

Html Converter Pro

Applications and Utilities

p5-HTML-Format-1.23 - A module to format HTML to text or PS

p5-POE-Component-RSS-0.06 - A module for event based RSS parsing

ruby-htmlcompact-1.0.2 - A Ruby library to compact an HTML document by reducing whitespaces

ruby-htmlrepair-1.0.1 - A Ruby library to repair unclosed tags in an HTML document

ruby-htmlsplit-1.0.2 - A Ruby library to split an HTML document into tags and contents

p5-HTML-Tree-3.11 - A collection of modules to manupulate HTML syntax trees

ruby-http-access-2.D - A Ruby library to access the Internet via HTTP

glibwww-0.2_1 - A library for people wanting to use libwww with gtk/gnome

ruby-xmlparser-0.6.1_3 - Ruby module to access James Clark's XML Parser ToolKit ("expat")

TclExpat-1.1 - The TCL interface to Expat library

libxslt-1.0.16 - The XSLT C library for GNOME

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

p5-HTML-Stream-1.49 - Perl5 HTML output stream class, and some markup utilities

p5-HTML-Parser-3.25 - Perl5 module for parse HTML tag

p5-libwww-5.53 - Perl5 library for WWW access

HTML::HeadParser - Parses the section of an HTML document. Part of the libwww bundle. {oss,perl}

libwww - General-purpose client side Web API written in C for Unix and Windows (Win32) {OpenSource}

LWP - Library for WWW access in Perl. This module loads the other modules in the LWP module set. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

LWP::Debug - Debugging routines for libwww. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

LWP::IO - Low-level input and output functions for libwww. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

LWP::MemberMixin - A class used to enhance instance variable access in libwww. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

LWP::Simple - A simplified interface to the mammoth libwww bundle. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

LWP::Socket - Implements TCP/IP sockets for libwww. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

LWP::TkIO - If you're using Tk (see the Tk module) and libwww simultaneously, you need the input/output functions defined in this module. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

MIME::Base64 - Encodes and decodes Base 64 strings. I use MIME::Base64::decode_base64() to make them readable. No longer part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

MIME::Lite - Lets you send GIFs as e-mail attachments. [Perl] {oss}

MIME::QuotedPrint - Encodes and decodes Quoted Printable strings. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

MIME::Decoder - An object for decoding the body portion of a MIME stream. NOT part of the mammoth libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

MIME::Head - A class for parsing and manipulating RFC-822 (mail) headers, and specialized for coping with MIME types. NOT part of the mammoth libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

MIME::Parser - Split MIME mail into decoded components. This is how you can parse MIME streams to obtain MIME entities. NOT part of the mammoth libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

URI::Escape - Escape unsafe characters, and unescape escaped characters, in URIs, which are a generalization of URLs. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

URI::URL - Parse and manipulate URLs (Uniform Resource Locators). Part of the libwww bundle. [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::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}

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}

p5-HTML-Base-0.6.tgz - base HTML library

LWP::Protocol - Base class for all protocol implementations supported by the libwww library. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

MIME::Entity - Class for parsed-and-decoded MIME message. NOT part of the mammoth libwww bundle. [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}

Libraries and Functions

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Www - - WEB utilities (browers, HTTP servers, etc).

Yahoo! Computers and Internet:Internet:World Wide Web

(Metalab at UNC) /pub/linux/apps/www/ - WWW tools

(Metalab at UNC) /pub/linux/apps/www/misc/ - miscellaneous agents, server assistants, etc.

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