<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd"> <chapter> <header> <copyright> <year>1997</year><year>2016</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License, Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/. Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the License. </legalnotice> <title>Introduction</title> <prepared>Ingela Anderton Andin</prepared> <responsible></responsible> <docno></docno> <approved></approved> <checked></checked> <date>2004-09-28</date> <rev>A</rev> <file>introduction.xml</file> </header> <section> <title>Purpose</title> <p><c>Inets</c> is a container for Internet clients and servers including the following:</p> <list type="bulleted"> <item>An FTP client</item> <item>A TFTP client and server</item> <item>An <term id="HTTP"></term> client and server</item> </list> <p>The HTTP client and server are HTTP 1.1 compliant as defined in <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt">RFC 2616</url>.</p> </section> <section> <title>Prerequisites</title> <p>It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang programming language, concepts of OTP, and has a basic understanding of the FTP, TFTP, and HTTP protocols.</p> </section> </chapter>