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\chapter{Internet and WWW Services}
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\nodename{Internet and WWW}
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\label{www}
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\index{WWW}
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\index{Internet}
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\index{World-Wide Web}
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The modules described in this chapter provide various services to
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World-Wide Web (WWW) clients and/or services, and a few modules
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related to news and email. They are all implemented in Python. Some
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of these modules require the presence of the system-dependent module
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\code{sockets}\refbimodindex{socket}, which is currently only fully
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supported on \UNIX{} and Windows NT. Here is an overview:
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\begin{description}
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\item[cgi]
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--- Common Gateway Interface, used to interpret forms in server-side
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scripts.
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\item[urllib]
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--- Open an arbitrary object given by URL (requires sockets).
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\item[httplib]
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--- HTTP protocol client (requires sockets).
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\item[ftplib]
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--- FTP protocol client (requires sockets).
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\item[gopherlib]
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--- Gopher protocol client (requires sockets).
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\item[nntplib]
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--- NNTP protocol client (requires sockets).
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\item[urlparse]
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--- Parse a URL string into a tuple (addressing scheme identifier, network
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location, path, parameters, query string, fragment identifier).
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\item[sgmllib]
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--- Only as much of an SGML parser as needed to parse HTML.
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\item[htmllib]
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--- A parser for HTML documents.
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\item[xmllib]
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--- A parser for XML documents.
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\item[formatter]
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--- Generic output formatter and device interface.
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\item[rfc822]
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--- Parse \rfc{822} style mail headers.
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\item[mimetools]
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--- Tools for parsing MIME style message bodies.
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\item[binhex]
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--- Encode and decode files in binhex4 format.
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\item[uu]
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--- Encode and decode files in uuencode format.
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\item[binascii]
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--- Tools for converting between binary and various ascii-encoded binary
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representation
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\item[xdrlib]
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--- The External Data Representation Standard as described in \rfc{1014},
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written by Sun Microsystems, Inc. June 1987.
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\item[mailcap]
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--- Mailcap file handling. See \rfc{1524}.
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\item[base64]
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--- Encode/decode binary files using the MIME base64 encoding.
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\item[quopri]
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--- Encode/decode binary files using the MIME quoted-printable encoding.
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\item[SocketServer]
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--- A framework for network servers.
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\item[mailbox]
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--- Read various mailbox formats.
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\item[mimify]
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--- Mimification and unmimification of mail messages.
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\item[BaseHTTPServer]
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--- Basic HTTP server (base class for SimpleHTTPServer and CGIHTTPServer).
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\end{description}
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