<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Chapter 1. Introduction</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../manual.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="neon HTTP/WebDAV client library"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="neon HTTP/WebDAV client library"><link rel="prev" href="index.html" title="neon HTTP/WebDAV client library"><link rel="next" href="features.html" title="Feature list"></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">Chapter 1. Introduction</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="features.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a name="intro"></a>Chapter 1. Introduction</h1></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="features.html">Feature list</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="using.html">How to use neon from your application</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="compliance.html">Standards compliance</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="compliance.html#idm139901962061392">RFC 2518, HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring—WebDAV</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="compliance.html#idm139901961194512">RFC 2616, Hypertext Transfer Protocol—HTTP/1.1</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="compliance.html#idm139901961744128">RFC 2617, HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="compliance.html#idm139901960778368">Namespaces in XML</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="security.html">HTTP Client Security</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="security.html#idm139901961092096">CPU or memory consumption attacks</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="security.html#idm139901961222032">SSL/TLS connection security</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="security.html#idm139901963655840">Control character insertion in error messages</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="security.html#idm139901962213328">Attacks against authentication credentials</a></span></dt></dl></dd></dl></div><p>This chapter provides an introduction to neon, giving an
overview of the range of features offered, and some general guidelines
for using the neon API.</p><p>neon aims to provide a modern, flexible, and simple API
in the C programming language for implementing HTTP and WebDAV
support. The WebDAV functionality is entirely separate from the basic
HTTP functionality; neon can be used simply as an HTTP client library,
ignoring the WebDAV support if desired.</p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"> </td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="features.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">neon HTTP/WebDAV client library </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Feature list</td></tr></table></div></body></html>