Net Clients .NET

(for lack of a better name)

The package Net Clients .NET contains client libraries written in C# for text-based internet protocols (so far including NNTP and Dict). These libraries are designed to reflect the RFCs of their respective protocols.

I created these libraries for my own purposes. I specifically began work on the NNTP libraries for a message board (with layers of XML, XSLT, and HTML on top). It occurred to me that I might as well share this stuff with everybody. If you have any suggestions or improvements, feel free to contact me via <sennomo at users.sourceforge.net>. If you happen to come up with a big addition, like a nifty front-end (command-line, web-based, whatever), I will gladly add you to the project.

Relevant RFCs

• Network News Transfer Protocol ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc977.txt
• Standard for interchange of USENET messages ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1036.txt
• Common NNTP Extensions ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2980.txt
• A Dictionary Server Protocol ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2229.txt

Diagrams

These diagrams were created mostly for their humor value (an inside joke, really). Some might find the class diagram useful, however.

• NNTP Class diagram
• NNTP Network diagram
• System Network diagram

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