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- <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Feature list</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="manual.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="neon HTTP/WebDAV client library"><link rel="up" href="intro.html" title="Chapter 1. Introduction"><link rel="prev" href="intro.html" title="Chapter 1. Introduction"><link rel="next" href="using.html" title="How to use neon from your application"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Feature list</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="intro.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 1. Introduction</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="using.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="features"></a>Feature list</h2></div></div></div><p>The major features of the neon library are as follows:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p>A high-level interface to common HTTP and WebDAV
- methods. This allows you to easily dispatch a GET or a MKCOL request
- against a resource with a single function call.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>A low-level interface for HTTP request
- handling; allowing you to implement requests using arbitrary methods
- and request headers, capture arbitrary response headers, and so
- on.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Persistent connection support; neon groups a
- set of requests to a server into a "session"; requests within that
- session can use a persistent (also known as "keep-alive")
- connection.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Modern HTTP authentication support: a complete
- implementation of the new authentication standard, RFC2617, supporting
- the Digest, Basic, and Negotiate protocols. Credentials are supplied
- by an application-defined callback as appropriate.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Proxy server support; a session can be set to
- use a proxy server. Authentication is supported for the Proxy as well
- as the origin server. The system's proxy configuration can be
- optionally used, on some platforms.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Complete SSL support; a simple interface for
- enabling SSL, hiding the complexity of using an SSL library directly.
- Client certificate support, callback-based server certificate
- verification, along with functions to load trusted CA certificates.
- Smartcard-based client certs are also supported via a wrapper
- interface for PKCS#11 modules.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Compressed response support: responses
- compressed using the "deflate" algorithm can be transparently
- decompressed.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Generic XML parsing interface for handling XML
- response bodies using SAX-like callbacks. Both the expat and libxml
- XML parser libraries are supported.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>WebDAV metadata support; set and remove
- properties, query properties (PROPFIND); simple interface for
- retrieving "flat" byte-string properties, more advanced support for
- parsing "complex" structured XML properties.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Build environment support: the neon source
- tree is designed so that it can be embedded in your application's
- build tree; autoconf macros are supplied for integration. To get
- started quickly a <a class="xref" href="refconfig.html" title="neon-config"><span class="refentrytitle">neon-config</span></a> script is included,
- to easily determine how to compile and link against an installed copy
- of neon</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Complete test suite: the neon test suite
- comprises half as many lines of source code as the library itself,
- including many tests for protocol compliance in network behaviour, and
- that the library implementation meets the guarantees made by the
- API.</p></li></ul></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="intro.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="intro.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="using.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 1. Introduction </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> How to use neon from your application</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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