Erlang -- Introduction

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### Chapters

- Introduction
  - Top of chapter
  - Purpose
  - Prerequisites
- Inets
  - Top of chapter
  - Service Concept
- FTP Client
  - Top of chapter
  - Getting Started
- HTTP Client
  - Top of chapter
  - Configuration
  - Getting Started
- HTTP server
  - Top of chapter
  - Configuration
  - Getting Started
  - Htaccess - User Configurable Authentication
  - Dynamic Web Pages
  - Logging
  - Erlang Web Server API
  - Inets Web Server Modules

# 1 Introduction

### 1.1 Purpose

Inets is a container for Internet clients and servers including the following:

- An FTP client
- A TFTP client and server
- An HTTP client and server

The HTTP client and server are HTTP 1.1 compliant as defined in RFC 2616.

### 1.2 Prerequisites

It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang programming language, concepts of OTP, and has a basic understanding of the FTP, TFTP, and HTTP protocols.