> HTML parsing
net.www.html.Parser
net.www.html.Document
> WWW date handling
> robots.txt parsing/handling
> a UserAgent concept
i think this could be nicely constructed under the net package
> NNTP, Gopher et al.
net.nntp
> It does not allow the UserAgent control over HTTP so one can not
> utilize the information in that protocol. Its URL support is also
> pretty basic.
i would guess that it's good for subclassing and extending
> BTW - It does have urlencode (but not urldecode) see :
> http://www.javasoft.com/JDK-1.0/api/java.net.URLEncoder.html#_top_
java.net.html.URL.toString()?
> Java is also slow and, IMHO, not well integrated with databases etc.
> If one wanted to compare it with Perl -- it also lacks text
> parsing.
java.util.StringTokenzier
java.io.StringTokenzier
-john