Declaration of W3C Sample Code News/NNTP Client

/*
**	(c) COPYRIGHT MIT 1995.
**	Please first read the full copyright statement in the file COPYRIGH.
*/

This application interface defines a News client which  can be used together with the Library core.The module itself is not part of the Library core. It may be registered by the application if wanted. The application may also use the application profiles to initialize this module.

#ifndef WWWNEWS_H
#define WWWNEWS_H

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" { 
#endif

System dependencies

The wwwsys.h file includes system-specific include files and flags for I/O to network and disk. The only reason for this file is that the Internet world is more complicated than Posix and ANSI.

#include "wwwsys.h"

NNTP Protocol State machine

The state machine handles requests and responses to an NNTP server according to the NNTP specifications.

#include "HTNews.h"

News Request Stream

The request stream generates a request which may or may not include a message body to be posted to the server

#include "HTNewsRq.h"

News Response Stream for Messages and group Listings

The News response streams parses the output from an NNTP server. The two formats understood are News groups and News articles.

#include "HTNewsLs.h"

Presentation of News Listings in HTML

When the output has been received then we convert it to HTML by parsing it through the following stream.

#include "HTNDir.h"

End of News module

#ifdef __cplusplus
} /* end extern C definitions */
#endif

#endif