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   1 \chapter{Internet and WWW Services}
   2 \nodename{Internet and WWW}
   3 \index{WWW}
   4 \index{Internet}
   5 \index{World-Wide Web}
   6
   7 The modules described in this chapter provide various services to
   8 World-Wide Web (WWW) clients and/or services, and a few modules
   9 related to news and email.  They are all implemented in Python.  Some
  10 of these modules require the presence of the system-dependent module
  11 \code{sockets}, which is currently only fully supported on Unix and
  12 Windows NT.  Here is an overview:
  13
  14 \begin{description}
  15
  16 \item[cgi]
  17 --- Common Gateway Interface, used to interpret forms in server-side
  18 scripts.
  19
  20 \item[urllib]
  21 --- Open an arbitrary object given by URL (requires sockets).
  22
  23 \item[httplib]
  24 --- HTTP protocol client (requires sockets).
  25
  26 \item[ftplib]
  27 --- FTP protocol client (requires sockets).
  28
  29 \item[gopherlib]
  30 --- Gopher protocol client (requires sockets).
  31
  32 \item[nntplib]
  33 --- NNTP protocol client (requires sockets).
  34
  35 \item[urlparse]
  36 --- Parse a URL string into a tuple (addressing scheme identifier, network
  37 location, path, parameters, query string, fragment identifier).
  38
  39 \item[htmllib]
  40 --- A (slow) parser for HTML files.
  41
  42 \item[sgmllib]
  43 --- Only as much of an SGML parser as needed to parse HTML.
  44
  45 \item[rfc822]
  46 --- Parse RFC-822 style mail headers.
  47
  48 \item[mimetools]
  49 --- Tools for parsing MIME style message bodies.
  50
  51 \end{description}