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    <title>Introduction</title>
    <prepared>Péter Dimitrov</prepared>
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    <date>2018-02-28</date>
    <rev>A</rev>
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  <section>
    <title>Purpose</title>
    <p><c>Inets</c> is a container for Internet clients and servers
      including the following:</p>
      <list type="bulleted">
       <item>An HTTP client and server</item>
     </list>
     <p>The HTTP client and server are HTTP 1.1 compliant as
      defined in 
     <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt">RFC 2616</url>.</p>
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  <section>
    <title>Prerequisites</title>
    <p>It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang
      programming language, concepts of OTP, and has a basic
      understanding of and HTTP protocol.</p>
  </section>
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