Why Libwww

Libwww is a highly modular, general-purpose client side Web API written in C for Unix and Windows (Win32) (and I know that it runs on Macs too). It's well suited for both small and large applications, like browser/editors, robots, batch tools, etc. Pluggable modules provided with libwww include complete HTTP/1.1 (with caching, pipelining, PUT, POST, Digest Authentication, deflate, etc), MySQL logging, FTP, HTML/4, XML (expat), RDF (SiRPAC), and much more. The purpose of libwww is to serve as a testbed for protocol experiments.