Hypertext Transfer Protocol , or HTTP, is the protocol used within the World Wide Web for transferring documents. The current version is 1.1.
Servers
- Web Publishing
- contains a list of HTTP servers
Tcl Clients
- http
- A client-side implementation of HTTP bundled with Tcl.
- nstcl-http
- Another client-side implementation of HTTP.
- rl_http
- A REST-capable, never-blocking HTTP client package that supports HTTPS, deflate, chunked encoding for Tcl, NaviServer, or AOLserver.
Tools
- autoproxy
- a tcllib module that attempts to automate the use of HTTP proxy servers in Tcl HTTP client code.
- vfs::http
- a virtual filesystem for HTTP transactions
See Also
- http in Jacl
- Tunnel HTTP through SMTP
- Tunnel IRC through HTTP proxies
- allow HTTP/1.1 CONNECTs to the outside.
Line Translation
PYK 2016-04-13: When forming an HTTP request in Tcl, make sure lines end in CRLF. Otherwise, the reponse may be 400 Bad Request. The MIME module in Tcllib produces messages with CRLF as the line delimiter, in which case the channel should be configured as -translation binary.