Version 2 of Interacting with the internet

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

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

Email

mail notification tools (i.e., biff)
Tkmsmail [L1 ]
email-www [L2 ]
enabled mail [L3 ]
Tcl MIME [L4 ]
ezsmtp [L5 ]
Fmail (Mail filtering) [L6 ]

FTP

ftp_lib [L7 ] 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 [L8 ] http://www.sensus.org/tcl/

There are several ways of using server-side TCL on the web:

AOL Webserver [L9 ]
Neosoft module for Apache [L10 ]
Mod_tcl (aka mod_dtcl) [L11 ]
tclhttpd [L12 ]
HTML support can be found in html_library [L13 ] (with updates at [L14 ], Plume [L15 ], tkhtml [L16 ], WebTk [L17 ], and possibly other packages.

CGI/Middleware

cgi.tcl [L18 ]

Invoking browsers

IRC/Moos/other interactive chat related services

LDAP

[L19 ] http://www.sensus.org/tcl/
tclLDAP [L20 ]

News

Simple News Posting Program

Telnet

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.

Books