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# Introduction

## Purpose

`Inets` is a container for Internet clients and servers including the following:

- An HTTP client and server

The HTTP client and server are HTTP 1.1 compliant as defined in
[RFC 2616](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt).

## Prerequisites

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.