Purpose: to discuss the various aspects of interacting with the
internet and its services.



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'''Dict''' (http://www.dict.org/): [Tcl interface to a dict server]

'''Email'''
   * [mail notification tools (i.e., biff)]
   * Tkmsmail [http://www.du.edu/%7Emschwart/tcl-tk.htm]
   * email-www [ftp://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/tcl/email-www.tar.gz]
   * enabled mail [ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/unknown/safe-tcl-1.2.tar.gz]
   * Tcl MIME [http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/soft/mail/]
   * ezsmtp [http://www.millibits.com/djh/tcl/]
   * Fmail (Mail filtering) [http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/soft/mail/]

'''FTP'''
   * ftp_lib [http://home.t-online.de/home/Steffen.Traeger/tindexe.htm] A Tcl 8.x dynamically loadable extension providing Tcl commands to interact with an FTP server.

'''HTTP/HTTPS/HTML'''
   * HTTP extension comes with the core Tcl distribution
   * SSL extensions [http://www.abc.se/%7Em9339/prog/ssl/SSLtcl.html] http://www.sensus.org/tcl/
There are several ways of using server-side TCL on the web:
   * AOL Webserver [http://www.aolserver.com/server/]
   * Neosoft module for Apache [http://www.NeoSoft.com/neowebscript/]
   * Mod_tcl (aka mod_dtcl) [http://comanche.com.dtu.dk/dave/]
   * tclhttpd [http://www.scriptics.com/tclhttpd/]
   * HTML support can be found in html_library [ftp://ftp.scriptics.com/pub/tcl/misc/html_library-0.3.tar.gz] (with updates at [http://www.msen.com/%7Eclif/RP_Updates.html], Plume [http://tcltk.anu.edu.au/], [tkhtml], WebTk [ftp://ftp.scriptics.com/pub/tcl/misc/], and possibly other packages.
''CGI/Middleware''
   * cgi.tcl [http://expect.nist.gov/cgi.tcl/]

'''[Invoking browsers]'''

'''IRC/Moos/other interactive chat related services'''

'''LDAP'''
   * [http://www.openldap.org/] http://www.sensus.org/tcl/
   * tclLDAP [ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/databases/tclLDAP-2.1/tclLDAP-2.1.tar.gz]

'''News'''
   * [Simple News Posting Program]

'''[Telnet]'''

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'''Other ?'''

''Hopefully someone will come along and discuss the various topics relating to the above and more.  Hopefully pointers to useful extensions, useful code, etc. will appear.''
There's for instance a mini mailer frame and a micro mailchecker in [Bag of algorithms].

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'''Books'''
   * [BOOK Building Network Management Tools With Tcl/Tk]
   * [BOOK Cookbook for Serving the Internet - UNIX Version, 1/e]
   * [BOOK Bots and Other Internet Beasties Book/CD Package]
   * [BOOK How to Manage Your Network Using SNMP]
   * [BOOK Web Development with TCL/TK 8.1]
   * [BOOK Tcl for Web Nerds]
   * [BOOK Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing]
   * [BOOK Web TCL Complete]
   * [BOOK Database Backed Web Sites]
   * [BOOK Interactive Web Applications With Tcl/Tk]
   * [BOOK CGI Developer's Resource - Web Programming in Tcl and Perl]


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See also [Getting  stock  quotes  over the internet]