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<a name="gnet-overview"></a>GNet Overview</h2></div></div></div>
<p>
GNet is a network library. It is written in C, object-oriented,
and built upon GLib. It is intended to be easy to use and port.
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Features:
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<li><p>TCP "client" and "server" sockets</p></li>
<li><p>UDP and IP Multicast sockets</p></li>
<li><p>High-level TCP connection and server objects</p></li>
<li><p>Asynchronous socket IO</p></li>
<li><p>HTTP client object</p></li>
<li><p>Internet address abstraction</p></li>
<li><p>Asynchronous DNS lookup</p></li>
<li><p>IPv4 and IPv6 support</p></li>
<li><p>Byte packing and unpacking</p></li>
<li><p>URI parsing</p></li>
<li><p>SHA and MD5 hashes</p></li>
<li><p>Base64 encoding and decoding</p></li>
<li><p>SOCKS support</p></li>
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GNet is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
Read COPYING for information on the license (this file comes
with the GNet distribution).
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