.. _internet:

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Internet Protocols and Support

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.. index::

   single: WWW

   single: Internet

   single: World Wide Web

.. index:: module: socket

The modules described in this chapter implement Internet protocols and  support

for related technology.  They are all implemented in Python. Most of these

modules require the presence of the system-dependent module :mod:`socket`, which

is currently supported on most popular platforms.  Here is an overview:

.. toctree::

   webbrowser.rst

   cgi.rst

   cgitb.rst

   wsgiref.rst

   urllib.rst

   urllib2.rst

   httplib.rst

   ftplib.rst

   poplib.rst

   imaplib.rst

   nntplib.rst

   smtplib.rst

   smtpd.rst

   telnetlib.rst

   uuid.rst

   urlparse.rst

   socketserver.rst

   basehttpserver.rst

   simplehttpserver.rst

   cgihttpserver.rst

   cookielib.rst

   cookie.rst

   xmlrpclib.rst

   simplexmlrpcserver.rst

   docxmlrpcserver.rst