This package is based on the package 'neon' from project 'devel:tools:scm:svn'.

neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C interface.
Featuring: * High-level interface to HTTP and WebDAV methods
(PUT, GET, HEAD etc)

* Low-level interface to HTTP request handling, to allow
implementing new methods easily.

* HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/1.0 persistent connections

* RFC2617 basic and digest authentication (including auth-int,
md5-sess)

* Proxy support (including basic/digest authentication)

* Generic WebDAV 207 XML response handling mechanism

* XML parsing using the expat or libxml parsers

* Easy generation of error messages from 207 error responses

* WebDAV resource manipulation: MOVE, COPY, DELETE, MKCOL.

* WebDAV metadata support: set and remove properties, query any set of
properties (PROPPATCH/PROPFIND).

Authors:
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Joe Orton