
This is Version 0.2-2 of the HTTPClient package. The latest version should
always be available at http://www.innovation.ch/java/HTTPClient/ .
Copyright (C) 1996,1997  Ronald Tschalaer


Installation:
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Unpacking the .tar.Z or .zip should've created a subdirectory
'HTTPClient'. Put this directory somewhere in your classpath. If you
haven't done the following already I recommend setting up a main
directory that contains a subdirectory for every java package you
install, and then add this main directory to your classpath - that way
for new packages all you have to do is unpack them into a subdirectory
under the main directory and away you go. Now add a 'import HTTPClient.*;'
statement to each of your files that use any part of the package and
you're set to go.

Well, almost. When using Netscape to run an applet using this package,
it seems you have to make a subdirectory HTTPClient (with all the class
files in it) underneath the directory containing the applet. This is
because Netscape will try to find the classes from HTTPClient as
/path-to-applet/HTTPClient/x.class . On U*IX you can also just create
a symbolic link to the directory you unpacked this kit into.

As of version 3.0b7 Netscape has now introduced the ARCHIVE attribute to
the APPLET tag (see also
http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/3.0/relnotes/unix-3.0b7.html#Java).
Instead of making a directory containing all the class files as described
above, you can put all the class files into a zip file called HTTPClient.zip.
This zip file must not be compressed, i.e. create the archive with something
like 'zip -0 HTTPClient.zip HTTPClient/*.class'. 


Use:
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See the documentation in the doc subdirectory, and the javadoc documentation
in the api subdirectory.


Comments:
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Mail suggestions, comments, bugs, enhancement-requests to:

ronald@innovation.ch


  Have fun,

  Ronald

