Modules

WebL includes a number of standard modules for the convenient reuse of often required functionality. The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the more common modules shipped with the WebL installation ( See Standard WebL Modules ). To use most of these modules, a programmer must import the module and refer to the exported variables of the module. See Modules

Standard WebL Modules

Module

Function

Base64

Encodes and decodes base 64 strings used for user authentication at many web sites.

Browser

Provides access to the web browser for displaying web pages. See Module Browser

Cookies

Provides functionality to save and load the HTTP cookie database. See Module Cookies

Farm

Introduces a technique for programming and controlling several concurrently executing threads. See Module Farm

Files

Functions to process local files and download pages to files. See Module Files

Java

WebL-Java integration support. See Module Java

Servlet

Java Servlet support. See Module Servlet

Str

General string related functions. See Module Str

Url

Url manipulation functions. See Module Url

WebCrawler

An extensible web crawler object. See Module WebCrawler

WebServer

Implementation of a simple web server. See Module WebServer

Module Base64

Module Browser

Module Cookies

Module Farm

Module Files

Module Java

Module Servlet

Module Str

Module Url

Module WebCrawler

Module WebServer

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