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Update to neon trunk.
CVS patchset: 7523 CVS date: 2004/10/29 13:57:41
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-neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library.
+neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C language API.
+Bindings for other languages may also be available, see the web site
+for more details.
+
+Mailing list: neon@webdav.org || Web site: http://www.webdav.org/neon/
+
+PLEASE NOTE: The neon API is subject to backwards-incompatible change
+over minor releases (0.23.x -> 0.24.x) until the 1.0.0 release, but
+maintains source and binary backwards compatibility through patch
+releases (0.24.0 -> 0.24.7).
Current features:
@@ -9,17 +18,32 @@ Current features:
- Persistent connection support (HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/1.0 aware)
- Basic and digest authentication (RFC2617) (including auth-int, md5-sess)
- Proxy support (including basic/digest authentication)
+ - SSL/TLS support using OpenSSL (including client certificate support)
- Generic WebDAV 207 XML response handling mechanism
- - XML parsing using expat or libxml parser
+ - XML parsing using expat or libxml (1.x or 2.x) parser
- Easy generation of error messages from 207 error responses
- Basic HTTP/1.1 methods: GET, PUT, HEAD, OPTIONS, conditional PUT
- WebDAV resource manipulation: MOVE, COPY, DELETE, MKCOL.
- WebDAV metadata support: set and remove properties (PROPPATCH), query
any set of properties (PROPFIND).
+ - WebDAV locking support
+ - Autoconf macros supplied for easily embedding neon directly inside
+ an application source tree.
Provides lower-level interfaces to directly implement new HTTP
-methods, and higher-level interfaces so that you don't have to
-worry about the lower-level stuff.
+methods, and higher-level interfaces so that you don't have to worry
+about the lower-level stuff.
+
+neon is licensed under the GNU Library GPL; see src/COPYING.LIB for
+full details. The manual is licensed under the terms of the GNU FDL;
+see doc/fdl.sgml or the generated documentation. The autoconf macros
+in the "macros" directory are under a less restrictive license, see
+each file for details. The test suite is licensed under the GNU GPL;
+see test/COPYING for full details.
-Joe Orton
-<joe@orton.demon.co.uk>
+neon is Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Joe Orton
+Portions are:
+Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Tommi Komulainen <Tommi.Komulainen@iki.fi>
+Copyright (C) 1999-2000, Peter Boos <pedib@colorfullife.com>
+Copyright (C) 1991, 1995, 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2004 Aleix Conchillo Flaque <aleix@member.fsf.org>