# Libwww - the W3C Sample Code Library

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Libwww is a general-purpose Web API written in C for Unix and Windows (Win32). With a highly extensible and layered API, it can accommodate many different types of applications including clients, robots, etc. The purpose of libwww is to provide a highly optimized HTTP sample implementation as well as other Internet protocols and to serve as a testbed for protocol experiments.

- Feb 9, 1999: New tiny, Web browser with only a strict minimum of HTTP and HTML committed to CVS
- Jan 30, 1999: Vladimir Kozlov has just compiled fresh libwww binaries for wintel - available from the IDM Web site
- Jan 6, 1999: Improved libwww HTML parser and new callback interface committed to CVS
- Dec 16, 1998: Jose Kahan announces client-side Digest Authentication implementation in libwww - try it out!
- Dec 1, 1998: Libwww now runs in the latest Cygwin b20 environment - please help testing!

## News, Updates, and Events

Dec 3, 1998
  Number of libwww check-outs from CVS exceeds 700!
Nov 1, 1998
  Release of libwww 5.2 - a result of close collaboration and extensive testing by the libwww community. Special thanks to Bob Racko, John Punin, Vladimir Kozlov, and Jose Kahan.

See also the libwww timeline

## Libwww Mailinglist

Please send all requests regarding libwww to <www-lib@w3.org>. This list is archived at findmail and in the W3C archives. Note, that you MUST be subscribed in order to post to the mailing list. Follow these shortcuts to quick subscribe or quick unsubscribe or see the information on mailing lists for more details.

## Legal Stuff

- Libwww is covered by this copyright notice as well as the full W3C license
- Any IPR questions? Please check our Intellectual Property FAQ for answers
- If you like to get contribute changes so that they can be incorporated into our code base then please fill out the Corrections, Modifications, and Patches form and send it to us. Otherwise we can not use the patch!

## Authors

The development of libwww depends on YOU! The more people who are contributing and helping the development, the more useful the code base gets. Check out the list of libwww hackers who provide invaluable contributions to the libwww code base and find out how you can help!

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
  Designed and implemented libwww from version 2.17 up to the latest version
Tim Berners-Lee and Jean-Francois Groff
  Came up with the initial design and implementation of libwww

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