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\chapter{THE INTERNET AND THE WORLD-WIDE WEB}
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\index{WWW}
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\index{Internet}
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\index{World-Wide Web}
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The modules described in this chapter provide various services to
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World-Wide Web (WWW) clients and/or services, and a few modules
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related to news and email. They are all implemented in Python. Some
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of these modules require the presence of the system-dependent module
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\code{sockets}, which is currently only fully supported on Unix and
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Windows NT. Here is an overview:
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\begin{description}
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\item[cgi]
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--- Common Gateway Interface, used to interpret forms in server-side
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scripts.
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\item[urllib]
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--- Open an arbitrary object given by URL (requires sockets).
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\item[httplib]
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--- HTTP protocol client (requires sockets).
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\item[ftplib]
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--- FTP protocol client (requires sockets).
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\item[gopherlib]
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--- Gopher protocol client (requires sockets).
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\item[nntplib]
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--- NNTP protocol client (requires sockets).
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\item[urlparse]
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--- Parse a URL string into a tuple (addressing scheme identifier, network
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location, path, parameters, query string, fragment identifier).
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\item[htmllib]
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--- A (slow) parser for HTML files.
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\item[sgmllib]
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--- Only as much of an SGML parser as needed to parse HTML.
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\item[rfc822]
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--- Parse RFC-822 style mail headers.
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\item[mimetools]
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--- Tools for parsing MIME style message bodies.
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\end{description}
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