GNU inetlib

inetlib is a collection of Internet client libraries that facilitate the development of client-side Java network programming. It implements the parsing and construction of responses and requests for a number of common Internet protocols.

Each Internet protocol is assigned to its own package. If a protocol describes resources that can be retrieved via a URL, a standard Java URLStreamHandler is also provided for that protocol. However, the intent of this library is to be able to provide all the bells, whistles, optimizations, additional features and other goodness by addressing the protocol at the lowest feasible level rather than at a level of abstraction that takes a lot of this control away from the developer.

The following protocols are supported:

HTTP/1.1

RFC 2616

FTP

RFC 959

SMTP

RFC 2821

IMAP4rev1

RFCs 3501, 4315 (UIDPLUS extension), 2087 (QUOTA extension), 4314 (ACL extension)

POP3

RFC 1939

NNTP

RFCs 977, 2980 (Common Extensions)

LDAP

RFC 4511

Documentation

The full API documentation is available here.

History and community

inetlib was developed by Chris Burdess from 2002, and the copyright is held by the Free Software Foundation. It forms part of the GNU classpathx project. To get involved, please sign up at the Savannah page.