.. _internet: ****************************** Internet Protocols and Support ****************************** .. index:: single: WWW single: Internet single: World Wide Web .. index:: module: socket The modules described in this chapter implement Internet protocols and support for related technology. They are all implemented in Python. Most of these modules require the presence of the system-dependent module :mod:`socket`, which is currently supported on most popular platforms. Here is an overview: .. toctree:: webbrowser.rst cgi.rst cgitb.rst wsgiref.rst urllib.rst urllib2.rst httplib.rst ftplib.rst poplib.rst imaplib.rst nntplib.rst smtplib.rst smtpd.rst telnetlib.rst uuid.rst urlparse.rst socketserver.rst basehttpserver.rst simplehttpserver.rst cgihttpserver.rst cookielib.rst cookie.rst xmlrpclib.rst simplexmlrpcserver.rst docxmlrpcserver.rst