6 Internet Services

Originally, STML planned to have many tags which performed operations on common Internet services. The skunk.org team soon realized, however, that it was a better approach to use Python's standard modules for Internet services. If you need to perform some operation, such as fetching a web page from a server, or talking to a UseNet newsgroup, or fetching mail from a POP mail server, write your own wrapper module for use in SkunkWeb, and make use of Python's fantastic standard modules, such as httplib and urllib.

STML gives you only one tag for Internet services: a tag for sending electronic mail, since that is a common task performed by web applications.


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