neon HTTP/WebDAV client library

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Feature list

How to use neon from your application

Protocol compliance

RFC 2518, HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring—WebDAV

RFC 2616, Hypertext Transfer Protocol—HTTP/1.1

RFC 2617, HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication

2. The neon C language interface

Parsing XML

Introduction to SAX

Stacked SAX handlers

Maintaining state

XML namespaces

I. neon API reference

neon - HTTP and WebDAV client library

neon-config - script providing information about installed copy of neon library

ne_add_request_header - add headers to a request

ne_addr_resolve - functions to resolve hostnames to addresses

ne_buffer - string buffer handling

ne_buffer_append - append data to a string buffer

ne_buffer_clear - general purpose of group of functions

ne_buffer_create - general purpose of group of functions

ne_buffer_destroy - destroy a buffer object

ne_get_error - error handling for HTTP sessions

ne_get_status - retrieve HTTP response status for request

ne_iaddr_make - functions to manipulate and compare network addresses

ne_malloc - memory allocation wrappers

ne_request_create - low-level HTTP request handling

ne_session_create - set up HTTP sessions

ne_set_useragent - common settings for HTTP sessions

ne_set_request_body_buffer - include a message body with a request

ne_set_server_auth - register authentication callbacks

ne_shave - trim whitespace from a string

ne_sock_init - perform library initialization

ne_ssl_cert_identity - functions to access certificate properties

ne_ssl_cert_cmp - functions to operate on certificate objects

ne_ssl_cert_read - functions to read or write certificates to and from files or strings

ne_ssl_dname - SSL distinguished name handling

ne_ssl_trust_cert - functions to indicate that certificates are trusted

ne_ssl_set_verify - register an SSL certificate verification callback

ne_ssl_client_cert - SSL client certificate handling

ne_status - HTTP status structure

ne_token - string tokenizers

ne_version_match - library versioning

Bibliography

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