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Webs is a toolkit for programming with HTTP in OCaml. It provides:
- IO agnostic representations for HTTP requests and responses.
- Optional HTTP service building blocks. File serving, authenticated cookies, sessions, etc.
- Connectors for running HTTP services defined as functions mapping requests to responses. CGI and HTTP/1.1 gateway connectors are provided, but you can bring your own.
Webs is not a framework, it is a set of building blocks.
Webs is distributed under the ISC license. The base library has no
dependencies. Some building blocks and the built-in gateway connectors
depend on OCaml's Unix and Thread modules. The command line
support depends on cmdliner.
Homepage: http://erratique.ch/software/webs
Webs can be installed with opam:
opam install webs
opam install webs cmdliner # with cmdliner support
If you don't use opam consult the opam file for build
instructions.
The documentation can be consulted online or via odig doc webs.
Questions are welcome but better asked on the OCaml forum than on the issue tracker.
A few programs can be found in the examples directory you
can run them for example with b0 -- authedcookie, see b0 list.
The webs command line tool serves files
over HTTP/1.1.