# neon HTTP/WebDAV client library

Joe
Orton
neon@lists.manyfish.co.uk
2001-2008
Joe Orton

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## Introduction

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.

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.

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## The &neon; C language interface

The documentation for the &neon; interface is split between this chapter, which gives a broad introduction to the abstractions exposed by the library, and , which gives a function-by-function breakdown of the interface.

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## neon API reference

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## neon API reference

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