(LIBrary World Wide Web) A library of open source routines for writing Web applications under Unix and Windows from the W3C. Originally developed by Tim Berners-Lee, it provides HTTP, FTP, HTML, XML and other functions for client applications. Browsers, bots and many popular utilities have used libwww.
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Libwww is a highly-modular client-side web API written in C for Unix and Windows, and is also the name of the reference implementation of this API.
It can be used for both large and small applications including: browsers/editors, robots and batch tools. There are pluggable modules provided with Libwww which include complete HTTP/1.1 with caching, pipelining, POST, Digest Authentication, deflate, etc.
The purpose of libwww is to serve as a testbed for protocol experiments.
Tim Berners-Lee created Libwww in November 1992 in order to demonstrate the potential of the World Wide Web. Applications such as the widely-used command-line text browser Lynx and the Mosaic web browser use Libwww.
Libwww is free software, distributed under the W3C Software Notice and License. Being free software means that recipients have access to the source code and are free to examine, copy, modify, and redistribute the software, thus ensuring the continued evolution to more useful applications.
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