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Tcl 8.5 Network Programming

You're reading from   Tcl 8.5 Network Programming Learn Tcl and you‚Äôll never look back when it comes to developing network-aware applications. This book is the perfect way in, taking you from the basics to more advanced topics in easy, logical steps.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849510967
Length 588 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Tcl 8.5 Network Programming
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Introducing Tcl FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced Tcl Features 3. Tcl Standalone Binaries 4. Troubleshooting Tcl applications 5. Data Storage 6. Networking in Tcl 7. Using Common Internet Services 8. Using Additional Internet Services 9. Learning SNMP 10. Web Programming in Tcl 11. TclHttpd in Client-Server Applications 12. SOAP and XML-RPC 13. SSL and Security

Using SOAP protocol


Another protocol that is a standard for invoking methods remotely over the web is SOAP. The standard itself is modular, which means that both way in which machines communicate and how content is sent can be implemented in any way. However, most implementations use XML for sending content and the HTTP / HTTPS protocol for sending information.

One of the major features of this protocol is that it is self-descriptive, which means that all that a client needs is WSDL. It specifies the available data types, methods, what arguments they accept, what is the result type. It also specifies address of host that we should use.

Usually applications first download the WSDL file from a remote server, which looks as follows:

WSDL can also be sent using other means, such as a file on a disk as it includes the URL of the application. The client will be able to determine how to connect to the remote service regardless of how the service definition was provided.

Web Services for Tcl supports...

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