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+# Introduction
 libsoup is an HTTP client/server library for GNOME. It uses GObjects
 and the glib main loop, to integrate well with GNOME applications.
 
-Features:
+# Features
   * Both asynchronous (GMainLoop and callback-based) and synchronous APIs
   * Automatically caches connections
   * SSL support
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   * Server support for Digest and Basic authentication
   * XML-RPC support
 
+# reference
 See the documentation in docs/reference/ and the test programs in
 tests/ for simple examples of how to use the code. The
 evolution-data-server and evolution-exchange modules in GNOME git have
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 More information (including the libsoup To Do list) is available at
 https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/libsoup
 
-Licensing:
+# Licensing
 libsoup is licensed under the LGPL, see COPYING for more details.