Hunny XStream MIME Library

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Introduction

The Hunny XStream MIME toolkit includes a high-performance parser for MIME messages, a high-performance base64 encoder and base64 decoder, and other tools for quoted-printable encoding, quoted-printable decoding, and email address parsing. Our main goals for creating this package were:

Create the fastest tools possible for the data intensive tasks of parsing MIME messages, encoding binary data with base64, and decoding binary data from base64.
Create tools that can be easily used as modules in other popular languages such as Java and Perl. When used in scripting languages such as Perl, these tools offer a significant performance boost while still allowing rapid application development.

For up-to-date information about Hunny XStream MIME, please check the Hunny XStream MIME home page on the Hunny Software web site, which contains information about maintenance releases, upgrades, and other recent information. We also maintain an RSS feed, where we post information about bug fixes and the release of new versions.

Modules

Hunny XStream MIME is a C library. However, the library supports object-based programming. The library defines several modules, and each module defines a single object. When you create an object, you get a pointer to that object. When you invoke functions on that object, you pass the object as the first parameter of the function.

The modules are listed below. Follow the link for a module to get detailed documentation for that module.

AddrParser.h -- Internet mail address parser
Base64Decoder.h -- base64 decoder
Base64Encoder.h -- base64 encoder
MimeParser.h -- MIME message parser
QpDecoder.h -- quoted-printable decoder
QpEncoder.h -- quoted-printable encoder

MIME++ and Hunny Mail++

Hunny XStream MIME is a specialized library, designed for extreme performance. Hunny Software also offers Hunny MIME++, which is full-featured C++ class library that offers a unique MIME object model. For more information about Hunny MIME++, please see the Hunny MIME++ home on our web site.

In addition, Hunny Software offers a companion Hunny Mail++ as a companion toolkit that provides support for SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, and NNTP. For more information about Hunny Mail++, please visit the Hunny Mail++ home on our web site.