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+(*
+ * Copyright (C) 2003:
+ * Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@cs.unibo.it>
+ * for the HELM Team http://helm.cs.unibo.it/
+ *
+ * This file is part of HELM, an Hypertextual, Electronic
+ * Library of Mathematics, developed at the Computer Science
+ * Department, University of Bologna, Italy.
+ *
+ * HELM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+ * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * HELM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with HELM; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston,
+ * MA 02111-1307, USA.
+ *
+ * For details, see the HELM World-Wide-Web page,
+ * http://helm.cs.unibo.it/
+ *)
+
+ (** helpers *)
+
+ (** remove all bindings of a given key from an hash table *)
+val hashtbl_remove_all: ('a, 'b) Hashtbl.t -> 'a -> unit
+
+ (** follows cut and paste from zack's Http_client_smart module *)
+
+ (** can't parse an HTTP url *)
+exception Malformed_URL of string
+ (** can't parse an HTTP response *)
+exception Malformed_HTTP_response of string
+
+ (** HTTP GET request for a given url, return http response's body *)
+val http_get: string -> string
+ (** HTTP POST request for a given url, return http response's body,
+ body argument, if specified, is sent as body along with request *)
+val http_post: ?body:string -> string -> string
+
+ (** perform an HTTP GET request and apply a given function on each
+ 'slice' of HTTP response read from server *)
+val http_get_iter_buf: callback:(string -> unit) -> string -> unit
+