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libwww ('''Lib'''rary '''W'''orld '''W'''ide '''W'''eb) is a modular client-side web API for Unix and Windows. [1]

84 relations: Agora (web browser), Amaya (web editor), Application programming interface, Arena (web browser), Basic access authentication, C (programming language), Cascading Style Sheets, Cello (web browser), CERN, CERN httpd, CERN Program Library, Client-side, Communication protocol, CURL, Cygwin, DECnet, DEFLATE, Digest access authentication, Distributed Oceanographic Data Systems, File Transfer Protocol, File URI scheme, Free software movement, FreeBSD, GNU General Public License, Gopher (protocol), Gzip, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, HTML, HTML editor, HTTP pipelining, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, IBM, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Internet bot, Library (computing), Library for WWW in Perl, Line Mode Browser, Linux, Lynx (web browser), MacOS, MacWWW, Microsoft Windows, Mosaic (web browser), MySQL, Network News Transfer Protocol, NeXTSTEP, OPeNDAP, OpenSSL, Operating system, Parsing, ..., Plug-in (computing), Portable Network Graphics, Porting, POST (HTTP), Public domain, Resource Description Framework, Robert Cailliau, Robot Operating System, Software portability, Software release life cycle, Solaris (operating system), SQL, Standard Generalized Markup Language, Style sheet language, Telnet, Testbed, Thread safety, Tim Berners-Lee, TkWWW, Transport Layer Security, University of São Paulo, Unix, W3C Software Notice and License, Web browser, Web cache, Web crawler, Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog, Wide area information server, World Wide Web, World Wide Web Consortium, WorldWideWeb, XML, Yahoo! Groups, Zlib. Expand index (34 more) »

Agora (web browser)

Agora was a World Wide Web email browser and was a proof of concept to help people to use the full internet.

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Amaya (web editor)

Amaya (formerly Amaya World) is a discontinued free and open source WYSIWYG web authoring tool with browsing abilities.

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Application programming interface

In computer programming, an application programming interface (API) is a set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building software.

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Arena (web browser)

The Arena browser (also known as the Arena WWW Browser) is an early (now discontinued) testbed Web browser and Web authoring tool for Unix.

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Basic access authentication

In the context of an HTTP transaction, basic access authentication is a method for an HTTP user agent (e.g. a web browser) to provide a user name and password when making a request.

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C (programming language)

C (as in the letter ''c'') is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language, supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system prevents many unintended operations.

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Cascading Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language like HTML.

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Cello (web browser)

Cello is an early discontinued graphical web browser for Windows 3.1, developed by Thomas R. Bruce of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School.

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CERN

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), known as CERN (derived from the name Conseil européen pour la recherche nucléaire), is a European research organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.

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CERN httpd

CERN httpd (later also known as W3C httpd) is an early, now discontinued, web server (HTTP) daemon originally developed at CERN from 1990 onwards by Tim Berners-Lee, Ari Luotonen and Henrik Frystyk Nielsen.

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CERN Program Library

The CERN Program Library or CERNLIB was a set of FORTRAN 77 libraries and modules, developed at the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN.

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Client-side

Client-side refers to operations that are performed by the client in a client–server relationship in a computer network.

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Communication protocol

In telecommunication, a communication protocol is a system of rules that allow two or more entities of a communications system to transmit information via any kind of variation of a physical quantity.

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CURL

cURL (/kɝl/ or /kə:l/) is a computer software project providing a library and command-line tool for transferring data using various protocols.

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Cygwin

Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows.

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DECnet

DECnet is a suite of network protocols created by Digital Equipment Corporation.

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DEFLATE

In computing, Deflate is a lossless data compression algorithm and associated file format that uses a combination of the LZ77 algorithm and Huffman coding.

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Digest access authentication

Digest access authentication is one of the agreed-upon methods a web server can use to negotiate credentials, such as username or password, with a user's web browser.

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Distributed Oceanographic Data Systems

The Distributed Oceanographic Data Systems, or DODS, is a type of server that allows sharing data with remote users or between DODS servers.

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File Transfer Protocol

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used for the transfer of computer files between a client and server on a computer network.

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File URI scheme

The file URI scheme is a URI scheme defined in, typically used to retrieve files from within one's own computer.

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Free software movement

The free software movement (FSM) or free / open source software movement (FOSSM) or free / libre open source software (FLOSS) is a social movement with the goal of obtaining and guaranteeing certain freedoms for software users, namely the freedom to run the software, to study and change the software, and to redistribute copies with or without changes.

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FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from Research Unix via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

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GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL) is a widely used free software license, which guarantees end users the freedom to run, study, share and modify the software.

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Gopher (protocol)

The Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet.

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Gzip

gzip is a file format and a software application used for file compression and decompression.

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Henrik Frystyk Nielsen

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen (born 1969) is a Danish engineer and computer scientist.

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HTML

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for creating web pages and web applications.

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HTML editor

An HTML editor is a computer program for editing HTML, the markup of a webpage.

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HTTP pipelining

HTTP pipelining is a technique in which multiple HTTP requests are sent on a single TCP connection without waiting for the corresponding responses.

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Hypertext Transfer Protocol

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, and hypermedia information systems.

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IBM

The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a professional association with its corporate office in New York City and its operations center in Piscataway, New Jersey.

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Internet bot

An Internet Bot, also known as web robot, WWW robot or simply -bot-, is a software application that runs automated tasks (scripts) over the Internet.

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Library (computing)

In computer science, a library is a collection of non-volatile resources used by computer programs, often for software development.

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Library for WWW in Perl

LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl (also called libwww-perl) is a set of Perl modules that give Perl programming easy access to sending requests to the World Wide Web.

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Line Mode Browser

The Line Mode Browser (also known as LMB,, WWWLib, or just www) is the second web browser ever created.

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Linux

Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.

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Lynx (web browser)

Lynx is a customizable text-based web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals.

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MacOS

macOS (previously and later) is a series of graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001.

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MacWWW

MacWWW, also known as Samba, is an early minimalist web browser from 1992 meant to run on Macintosh computers.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.

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Mosaic (web browser)

NCSA Mosaic, or simply Mosaic, is the web browser that popularized the World Wide Web and the Internet.

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MySQL

MySQL ("My S-Q-L") is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS).

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Network News Transfer Protocol

The Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) is an application protocol used for transporting Usenet news articles (netnews) between news servers and for reading and posting articles by end user client applications.

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NeXTSTEP

NeXTSTEP is a discontinued object-oriented, multitasking operating system based on UNIX.

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OPeNDAP

OPeNDAP is an acronym for "Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol," an endeavor focused on enhancing the retrieval of remote, structured data through a Web-based architecture and a discipline-neutral Data Access Protocol (DAP).

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OpenSSL

OpenSSL is a software library for applications that secure communications over computer networks against eavesdropping or need to identify the party at the other end.

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Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs.

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Parsing

Parsing, syntax analysis or syntactic analysis is the process of analysing a string of symbols, either in natural language, computer languages or data structures, conforming to the rules of a formal grammar.

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Plug-in (computing)

In computing, a plug-in (or plugin, add-in, addin, add-on, addon, or extension) is a software component that adds a specific feature to an existing computer program.

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Portable Network Graphics

Portable Network Graphics (PNG, pronounced or) is a raster graphics file format that supports lossless data compression.

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Porting

In software engineering, porting is the process of adapting software for the purpose of achieving some form of execution in a computing environment that is different from the one that a given program (meant for such execution) was originally designed for (e.g. different CPU, operating system, or third party library).

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POST (HTTP)

In computing, POST is a request method supported by HTTP used by the World Wide Web.

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Public domain

The public domain consists of all the creative works to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.

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Resource Description Framework

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a family of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications originally designed as a metadata data model.

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Robert Cailliau

Robert Cailliau (born 26 January 1947) is a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who created the first web browser for the Mac.

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Robot Operating System

Robot Operating System (ROS) is robotics middleware (i.e. collection of software frameworks for robot software development).

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Software portability

Portability in high-level computer programming is the usability of the same software in different environments.

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Software release life cycle

A software release life cycle is the sum of the stages of development and maturity for a piece of computer software: ranging from its initial development to its eventual release, and including updated versions of the released version to help improve software or fix software bugs still present in the software.

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Solaris (operating system)

Solaris is a Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems.

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SQL

SQL (S-Q-L, "sequel"; Structured Query Language) is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system (RDSMS).

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Standard Generalized Markup Language

The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML; ISO 8879:1986) is a standard for defining generalized markup languages for documents.

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Style sheet language

A style sheet language, or style language, is a computer language that expresses the presentation of structured documents.

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Telnet

Telnet is a protocol used on the Internet or local area network to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication facility using a virtual terminal connection.

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Testbed

A testbed (also spelled test bed) is a platform for conducting rigorous, transparent, and replicable testing of scientific theories, computational tools, and new technologies.

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Thread safety

Thread safety is a computer programming concept applicable to multi-threaded code.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English engineer and computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.

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TkWWW

tkWWW is an early, now discontinued web browser and WYSIWYG HTML editor written by Joseph Wang at MIT as part of Project Athena and the Globewide Network Academy project.

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Transport Layer Security

Transport Layer Security (TLS) – and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), which is now deprecated by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) – are cryptographic protocols that provide communications security over a computer network.

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University of São Paulo

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Unix

Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, development starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

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W3C Software Notice and License

The W3C Software Notice and License is a permissive free software license used by software released by the World Wide Web Consortium, like Amaya.

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Web browser

A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software application for accessing information on the World Wide Web.

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Web cache

A web cache (or HTTP cache) is an information technology for the temporary storage (caching) of web documents, such as HTML pages and images, to reduce server lag.

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Web crawler

A Web crawler, sometimes called a spider, is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web, typically for the purpose of Web indexing (web spidering).

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Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog

The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog, by Ed Krol, was published in September 1992 by O'Reilly.

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Wide area information server

Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) is a client–server text searching system that uses the ANSI Standard Z39.50 Information Retrieval Service Definition and Protocol Specifications for Library Applications" (Z39.50:1988) to search index databases on remote computers.

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World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or the Web) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and accessible via the Internet.

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World Wide Web Consortium

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3).

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WorldWideWeb

WorldWideWeb (later renamed to Nexus to avoid confusion between the software and the World Wide Web) was the first web browser and editor.

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XML

In computing, Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.

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Yahoo! Groups

Yahoo! Groups is one of the world’s largest collections of online discussion boards.

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Zlib

zlib is a software library used for data compression.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libwww

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