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User's Guide

Version 6.3.5

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Chapters

• Introduction
  • Top of chapter
  • Purpose
  • Prerequisites
• Inets
  • Top of chapter
  • Service Concept
• FTP Client
  • Top of chapter
  • Getting Started
• HTTP Client
  • Top of chapter
  • Configuration
  • Getting Started
• HTTP server
  • Top of chapter
  • Configuration
  • Getting Started
  • Htaccess - User Configurable Authentication
  • Dynamic Web Pages
  • Logging
  • Erlang Web Server API
  • Inets Web Server Modules

1 Introduction

1.1  Purpose

Inets is a container for Internet clients and servers including the following:

• An FTP client
• A TFTP client and server
• An HTTP client and server

The HTTP client and server are HTTP 1.1 compliant as defined in RFC 2616.

1.2  Prerequisites

It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang programming language, concepts of OTP, and has a basic understanding of the FTP, TFTP, and HTTP protocols.