Web Commander

# Web Commander

Basics | Features | Release Notes | Get Source | Binaries | Help and Screen Shots

The Web Commander is a Win32 application for getting, saving, and deleting documents remotely using HTTP/1.1. It allows the user to explicitly control the metadata describing the document to save including the language, type, charset, etc.

- Improved help documentation
- Read how Web Commander solves the lost update problem!

The Web Commander is part of the the libwww - the W3C Sample Code Library and is available in both source and binary versions.

## The Basics

Author(s)
  Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
Status
  An example application for libwww.
Plans
  New releases follow the releases of libwww with no exception.
Platforms
  It runs on Win32 - it's a Windows specific GUI application
Getting the Source Code
  The Web Commander comes as an integral part of the libwww distribution package but you can also get the binary version
Forums
  Discussions on libwww and its example applications take place on <www-lib@w3.org> (archives). See the documentation for how to subscribe.

## Binary Installation

Looking for Win32 binaries?
  Vladimir Kozlov has made a really cool libwww installshield for Win32 which is available from the IDM Web site

## Features

- Save a document from local disk, another HTTP server, or an FTP server onto your HTTP/1.1 server
- Delete and Get documents on your favorite HTTP/1.1 server
- Explicit control over metadata describing the source that you are saving like language, charset, etc.
- Support for version conflict detection - solves the lost update problem
- Support for proxies including ssh tunnelling
- See also the screen shots for samples and help