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authorDan Winship <danw@src.gnome.org>2004-08-26 17:26:04 +0000
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* AUTHORS: Update this to reflect the last 2 years. * NEWS: Brief summary of 1.99.x -> 2.2 changes * README, TODO: Updates
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Soup is an HTTP library implementation in C. It was originally part of
-a SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) implementation, but most of the
-SOAP code has since been removed.
+a SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) implementation, but the SOAP
+code was later removed (and then later partially reimplemented...)
-Soup uses the Glib main loop and is designed to work well with GTK
-applications. This enables GNOME applications to access HTTP servers
-on the network in a completely asynchronous fashion, very similar to
-the Gtk+ programming model (a synchronous operation mode is also
-supported for those who want it).
+Soup uses GObjects and the glib main loop, and is designed to work
+well with Gtk/GNOME applications. This enables GNOME applications to
+access HTTP servers on the network in a completely asynchronous
+fashion, very similar to the Gtk+ programming model (a synchronous
+operation mode is also supported for those who want it).
Soup also contains code to implement an HTTP/1.1 server.
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ Features:
* Client support for Digest, NTLM, and Basic authentication
* Server support for Digest and Basic authentication
+See the test programs in tests/ for simple examples of how to use the
+code, or evolution-data-server and evolution-exchange for more
+complicated examples.
+
+
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