This is a preliminary manual for OcamlNet that tries to focus on the concepts rather than explaining the details of every library function. For the latter, the mli files are currently the best source.

The library has currently three components: netstring, cgi, and pop. The first of them is the fundamental layer, mostly containing lots of functions to process strings and special data structures that are needed for network implementations. The other two parts are implementations of protocols.

The authors hope that this library is useful for somebody. We also hope to see more implementations of network protocols, and everybody is invited to do so.