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+The Ocamlnet project provides a collection of modules for the
+Objective Caml language which focus on application-level Internet
+protocols and conventions.
+
+The current distribution contains:
+
+- a mature implementation of the CGI protocol
+- an implementation of the JSERV protocol (AJP-1.2), can be used with
+ mod_jserv (Apache JServ) and mod_jk (Jakarta connector) to connect
+ application servers written in O'Caml with web servers
+- a FastCGI implementation
+- a POP3 client
+- an SMTP client
+- a library of string processing functions related to Internet
+ protocols (formerly known as "netstring" and distributed separately):
+ MIME encoding/decoding, Date/time parsing, Character encoding
+ conversion, HTML parsing and printing, URL parsing and printing,
+ OO-representation of channels, and a lot more.
+- an experimental web server component