Unix
module of the standard library.
So, which kind of applications can profit from Ocamlnet?
netcgi2
library which provides
all core functionality like connecting to web servers, decomposing
web requests, and emitting web data. With the nethttpd
library
Ocamlnet even includes a little web server of its own, so
stand-alone Ocaml programs can respond to HTTP requests. This is
especially interesting for providing high-speed HTTP-based APIs
like REST interfaces.netmulticore
library allows it to run compute tasks on as many cores of the
machine as needed. The tasks can communicate with message passing
and exchange data via shared memory. Of course, netmulticore
is
strictly typed.shell
library),
and also for globbing, sending email, and logging. Local and remote
filesystems can be accessed with the Netfs
framework. The
netsys
library wraps lots of additional system calls that are
missing in the Ocaml standard library.
Netchannels
are a way to abstract sequential I/O channelsEqueue
and Unixqueue
make
asynchronous protocol interpreters possiblenetplex
library manages worker subprocesses, e.g. for
accepting network connections or for doing computations.
Related external articles:
Netchannels_tut
: The Netchannels
tutorial - strongly
recommended read!Netmime_tut
: The Netmime
tutorialNetsendmail_tut
: The Netsendmail
tutorialNetulex_tut
: The Netulex
tutorialNeturl_tut
: The Neturl
tutorialEqueue_howto
: The Equeue, Unixqueue, and Engines HOWTOEqueue_intro
: Introduction to programming with equeue
Netplex_intro
: Introduction to Netplex
Netplex_advanced
: Advanced features of Netplex
Netplex_admin
: Netplex administration guideNetshm_intro
: Shared Memory for IPCShell_intro
: Motivation for shell
netstring
library: string processing functions
netstring
focuses on string processing functions, and base definitions
for other libraries.
Netconversion |
Conversion between character encodings
|
Netunichar |
Unicode character information
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Netchannels |
Object-oriented I/O: Basic types and classes
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Netstream |
A netstream is an input channel that is read block by block.
|
Mimestring |
Low-level functions to parse and print mail and MIME messages
|
Netmime |
Netmime contains high-level classes and functions to process
mail and MIME messages.
|
Netsendmail |
Functions to compose and send electronic mails
|
Neturl |
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)
|
Netsockaddr |
Parsing of socket addresses
|
Netaddress |
Parsing of mail addresses
|
Netbuffer |
A Netbuffer.t is a buffer that can grow and shrink dynamically.
|
Netpagebuffer |
Buffer for page-aligned I/O
|
Netdate |
Support for common date/time parsing and formatting.
|
Netencoding |
Base64, Quoted Printable, URL encoding, HTML escaping
|
Netulex |
Support module for Alain Frisch's
ulex lexer generator
|
Netaccel |
Accelerators for bytecode
|
Netaccel_link |
Enables accelerator module
Netaccel
|
Nethtml |
Parsing of HTML
|
Nethttp |
Basic definitions for the HTTP protocol
|
Netfs |
Class type
stream_fs for filesystems with stream access to files
|
Netglob |
Globbing
|
Netauth |
Some primitives for authentication
|
Netcompression |
Registry for compression algorithms
|
Netstring_str |
Wrapper for regexps with
Str syntax
|
Netmappings |
Internal access to the character conversion database
|
Netaux |
Internal auxiliary functions
|
Netnumber |
Binary encodings of numbers
|
Rtypes |
Binary encodings of numbers (Legacy)
|
Xdr |
External Data Representation
|
Xdr_mstring |
Managed Strings
|
netstring-pcre
library: additions for PCRE
Netstring_pcre |
Wrapper for regexps with PCRE syntax
|
netzip
library: compression for object channelsSupport for (un)compressing data on the fly with object channels. Requires ocamlzip.
Netgzip |
Gzip object channels
|
equeue
library: concurrent execution flows via event queues
equeue
is a fundamental library for event queues. It is mainly used
by a number of other libraries of Ocamlnet to parallelize network code
(so-called multiplexing).
Equeue | Equeue implements generic event queues.
|
Unixqueue |
Unixqueues are one of the two forms of system event loops provided
by Ocamlnet.
|
Unixqueue_pollset |
Unixqueue implementation on top of
Netsys_pollset
|
Unixqueue_select |
This the old
Unix.select -based imeplementation of event systems
which was the default one until Ocamlnet-2.2.
|
Uq_engines |
An engine performs a certain task in an autonomous way.
|
Uq_socks5 |
This module implements a SOCKS version 5 client (see RFC 1928) for
use with the
Uq_engines.connector , Uq_engines.listener , and
Uq_engines.datagram_provider engine factories.
|
Uq_resolver |
Support for pluggable resolvers
|
Uq_io |
Unified engines for stream I/O
|
Uq_lwt |
Compatibility with
Lwt
|
Uq_libevent |
Use Libevent as event loop
|
Uq_mt |
Using engines in multi-threaded programs
|
equeue-gtk1
and equeue-gtk2
extensions
Extensions for equeue
to integrate the event queue into user interfaces
made with lablgtk and lablgtk2
Uq_gtk |
Integration with lablgtk/lablgtk2 event systems
|
equeue-ssl
extension
Extensions for equeue
to support SSL
Uq_ssl |
Asynchronous SSL connections
|
Https_client |
HTTPS extension to
Http_client
|
equeue-tcl
extension
Extension for equeue
to integrate the event queue into user interfaces
made with labltk
Uq_tcl |
Integration with the labltk event system
|
netplex
library: generic server framework
The netplex
library is a protocol-independent server framework.
Especially, it can be used in conjunction with nethttpd
to
build web servers, and with rpc
to build RPC servers.
Netplex_types |
Types for
Netplex
|
Netplex_config |
Read the configuration file
|
Netplex_controller |
Controller
|
Netplex_container |
Containers
|
Netplex_sockserv |
Socket service creation
|
Netplex_workload |
Workload management
|
Netplex_kit |
Netplex toolkit
|
Netplex_cenv |
Container environment
|
Netplex_log |
Loggers
|
Netplex_main |
Main program for Netplex servers
|
Netplex_mp |
Multi-processing provider
|
Netplex_mt |
Multi-threading provider
|
Netplex_mutex |
Netplex-wide mutexes
|
Netplex_semaphore |
Netplex-wide semaphores
|
Netplex_sharedvar |
Netplex-wide variables
|
Netplex_mbox |
Netplex message boxes
|
Netplex_encap |
Type-safe marshalling between processes of the same executable
|
Rpc_netplex |
Netplex support for RPC servers (TCP only)
|
shell
library: start external commands
The shell
library allows you to start external commands. It is integrated
into equeue
.
Shell |
Calls external programs, creates pipelines, etc.
|
Shell_sys |
Calls external programs, creates pipelines, etc.
|
Shell_uq |
Run shell commands within Unixqueues
|
Shell_fs |
Shell filesystem
|
netshm
library: manage shared memory
The netshm
library manages a shared memory object either as hash table
or array. It is designed to be used in multi-processing program architectures.
Note that there is now also the much better The netmulticore library: compute jobs library.
Netshm |
Shared memory for O'Caml programs using multi-processing
|
Netshm_data |
Data representation for shared memory
|
Netshm_hashtbl |
Hash tables in shared memory
|
Netshm_array |
Arrays in shared memory
|
netsys
library: system interfaces
The netsys
library contains a number of low-level functions used by
other Ocamlnet libraries.
Platform | |
Netexn |
Exception registry
|
Netlog |
Basic logging facility
|
Netsys |
System calls missing in the
Unix module
|
Netsys_posix |
POSIX-specific system calls missing in the
Unix module, and
further API's from POSIX-style operating systems.
|
Netsys_oothr |
Object-oriented thread API
|
Netsys_signal |
Signal handler framework
|
Netsys_tmp |
Temporary files
|
Netsys_mem |
Bigarrays as memory buffers
|
Netsys_sem |
Generic anonymous semaphores
|
Netsys_pollset |
Sets of file descriptors for polling
|
Netsys_pollset_generic |
Returns a good standard implementation of pollset for this platform.
|
Netsys_pollset_posix |
Pollsets for POSIX operating systems
|
Netsys_pollset_win32 |
Pollsets for Win32
|
Netsys_win32 |
Primitives for Win32
|
Netsys_rng |
Random-number generator
|
Netcgi_porting
: Porting netcgi1
programs to netcgi2
Nethttpd_intro
: Overview over the HTTP daemon
netcgi1
library
The netcgi1
library is no longer supported in Ocamlnet 3. Please
switch to netcgi2
.
netcgi2
library: web application framework
This is the revised library for Web applications, now called netcgi2
.
Netcgi |
Common data-structures for CGI-like connectors.
|
Netcgi_common |
Functions to develop new connectors.
|
Netcgi_cgi |
Classical CGI connector.
|
Netcgi_fcgi |
FastCGI connector.
|
Netcgi_ajp |
Apache JServ Protocol (AJP) 1.3 connector.
|
Netcgi_scgi |
SCGI connector.
|
Netcgi_test |
Connector for testing your code.
|
Netcgi_dbi |
Pools of connections for the ocamldbi generic database interface.
|
Netcgi1_compat |
Compatibility module with the previous version of Netcgi.
|
netcgi2-apache
library: run web apps inside Apache
This is an Apache connector for the netcgi2
library.
Netcgi_apache |
Netcgi Apache "mod" connector.
|
Netcgi_modtpl |
netcgi2-plex
library: run web apps with NetplexNetplex support for running Netcgi2 connectors:
Netcgi_plex |
Netplex support for FastCGI, SCGI and AJP connectors
|
nethttpd
library: standalone web apps
The nethttpd
library is a Web server component written in O'Caml.
For a full web server, you'll also need netplex
.
Nethttpd_types |
Type definitions for the HTTP daemon
|
Nethttpd_kernel |
The protocol kernel of the HTTP daemon
|
Nethttpd_reactor |
The reactive encapsulation of the HTTP daemon
|
Nethttpd_engine |
The event-based encapsulation of the HTTP daemon
|
Nethttpd_services |
Service Providers for HTTP daemon
|
Nethttpd_plex |
Netplex support
|
Nethttpd_util |
Utility functions
|
Rpc_intro
: IntroductionRpc_mapping_ref
: RPC Language Mapping ReferenceRpc_intro_gss
: Securing RPC with the GSS-API
rpc
library: SunRPCThis library implements OncRPC (alias SunRPC).
Rpc |
Common types and exceptions
|
Rpc_program |
RPC programs
|
Rpc_client |
RPC clients
|
Rpc_simple_client |
Synchronous API for RPC clients
|
Rpc_proxy |
RPC proxies
|
Rpc_server |
RPC servers
|
Rpc_auth_sys |
Authentication module AUTH_SYS
|
Rpc_portmapper |
Portmapper version 2
|
Rpc_portmapper_aux | |
Rpc_portmapper_clnt | |
Rpc_transport |
Low-level RPC transporters
|
Rpc_packer |
The first n bytes of the packed value
|
Rpc_auth_gssapi |
GSS-API for RPC authentication
|
rpc-auth-local
extension: authentication for local socketsAuthentication for local socket connections.
Rpc_auth_local |
Return the authentication method
AUTH_LOCAL .
|
rpc-auth-dh
extension: Diffie-Hellman authenticationThis is Diffie-Hellman authentication for OncRPC (also known as "Secure RPC").
Rpc_auth_dh |
Diffie-Hellman authentication (AUTH_DH alias AUTH_DES)
|
Rpc_key_service |
Contact the keyserv daemon to encrypt/decrypt data with the common
key.
|
Rpc_time |
Get the time of the server (using the RFC 868 netdate protocol)
|
rpc-xti
extension: System V helpersSystem V provides a network API called XTI in addition to the socket API. This library allows it to connect to RPC services that can only be reached over a local XTI connection ("cots" connection).
Rpc_xti_client |
Minimal support for TI-RPC over the XTI API
|
rpc_ssl
extension: SSL encryptionThis library allows you to tunnel RPC through SSL/TLS.
Rpc_ssl |
Securing RPC by SSL
|
netgssapi
library with the GSS-API framework
Netgssapi |
GSS-API Definition
|
netmech-scram
library for SCRAMImplements SCRAM (RFC 5802). Right now only for GSS-API.
Netmech_scram |
SCRAM mechanism for authentication (RFC 5802)
|
Netmech_scram_gssapi |
The SCRAM security mechanism for GSS-API
|
Important change since OCaml-4.01: This OCaml version changed the
semantics of the built-in primitives caml_modify
and
caml_initialize
. Essentially, it is no longer possible to modify
OCaml values residing outside the regular OCaml heap. As we do this
inside Netcamlbox and Netmulticore, this change affects these
libraries. Fortunately, there is a workaround on systems supporting weak
symbols (all ELF systems and OS X): Here, caml_modify
and
caml_initialize
are overridden by Ocamlnet so that they are
again compatible. Note that this is a global modification of the
runtime system!
netcamlbox
library: message passingCamlbox is a fast message-passing system between processes running on the same machine. It uses shared memory for communication. A message sent to a Camlbox is only copied once, not twice.
Netcamlbox |
Camlboxes are a fast IPC mechanism to send Ocaml values from one
process to another.
|
netmulticore
library: compute jobsNetmulticore is an experimental framework for managing multiple processes, and sending messages between them.
Netmcore |
Multi-processing for compute jobs
|
Netmcore_process |
Statically typed processes
|
Netmcore_mempool |
Memory pools
|
Netmcore_heap |
Shared heaps of structured values
|
Netmcore_array |
Shared arrays
|
Netmcore_buffer |
Shared buffer
|
Netmcore_hashtbl |
Shared hashtables
|
Netmcore_matrix |
Shared 2-dimensional arrays (matrices)
|
Netmcore_queue |
Shared queues
|
Netmcore_ref |
Shared mutable variables
|
Netmcore_mutex |
Mutexes
|
Netmcore_sem |
Semaphores
|
Netmcore_condition |
Condition variables
|
Netmcore_camlbox |
Camlboxes for use in netmulticore programs
|
netclient
library: HTTP, FTP, TelnetThis library includes clients for HTTP, Telnet, and FTP.
Http_client |
HTTP 1.1 client
|
Http_client_conncache |
Connection cache
|
Http_fs |
HTTP filesystem
|
Ftp_client |
FTP client
|
Ftp_data_endpoint |
Senders and receivers for the FTP data connection
|
Ftp_fs |
FTP filesystem
|
Telnet_client |
Telnet client
|
pop
library: POP protocolThis is a simple POP 3 client.
Netpop |
This is an interface for the Post Office Protocol - Version 3
(POP3) as specifed by RFC 1939.
|
smtp
library: SMTP protocolThis is a simple SMTP client.
Netsmtp |
This is an interface for the Simple Mail Tranfer Protocol (SMTP)
as specified by RFC 2821.
|
The Ocamlnet libraries have been initially written by Gerd Stolpmann and Patrick Doane.
Contributions by
netcgi