Purpose: discuss and document various techniques for two Tcl applications to communicate - inter-machine.
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http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=697080728
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Cameron Laird says:
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- 'Depends. Here are four likely protocols:
- Your remote Unix station is set up to allow rsh access (you can validate this with trials from another Unix host). Use Tcl/Tk to drive a Win9x command-line rsh client, or write enough pure Tcl code to speak rsh directly.
A lot of us system administrators find rsh creepy, for security reasons. - Use ssh. Maybe you've got an sshd running on the Unix box already. In that case, find a Win9x command-line ssh client, and control it with Tcl/Tk. One can, in principle, code an ssh client in Tcl; that looks to me like a biiiiig job, though.
- I suspect what you'll choose is telnet. Use the Win* version of Expect to telnet to Unix, manage the login, and invoke the remote command you're after.
- It's not hard to code your own tiny process server in Tcl for the Unix host. At that point, an even tinier Tcl-based client can tickle it to accomplish the result you're after.
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- I summarize: it depends on the details of your computing and security environment. Is rshd running? sshd? How much security do you want?
Another possibility is the xmlrpc-protocol.
Steve Ball has written a tcl implementation of this protocol using tclhttpd as requesting server (the package is at
http://www.zveno.com/zm.cgi/in-tclxml/in-xmlrpc.tml, the protocol-description at
http://frontier.userland.com/tree$2.8.2. This is imhO a very elegant solution for loosely coupled systems. It's even easy to trigger actions from a server on a client-machine, which is running the tclhttpd as a scripted document. JH 29.11
Here is a fun little item:
securePipeHere is a page containing example an example server and client for a protocol which demonstrates how easy it is to do something sophisticated in tcl:
telnet (It is not a full telnet implementation though; that gets nasty and hard...)
Another popular method is via the comm extension:
What: comm
Where: http://www.schooner.com/%7Eloverso/tcl-tk/
Description: A pure-Tcl replacement for send, called comm, that uses
Tcl 7.5 (and later) socket command. Allows Tcl only scripts to
communicate and works under Windows. This is semantically
identical to send, both for complex transfers and error cases.
Also allows notification when a remote interp dies.
No interp registration is performed.
Updated: 12/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (John Robert LoVerso)
Note that comm was recently integrated into
Tcllib.
JCW wrote and maintains
Tequila.
What: apptalk
Where: ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/apptalk1.0b1.tar.gz
Description: Tcl only procedure for enabling inter-application communication.
It is a front-end to Tk's send command. Most useful for
applications that provide 'generic' services such as text editing,
email, web browsing, etc.
Updated: 10/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Bryan Oakley)
notes: (April, 2005) I wrote this *ages* ago and no longer have the source.
Some time in the past I discovered it on an old FTP site but it's probably
long gone. It was a fun exercise in the first year or so into my Tcl journey.
What: Combat (Was: tclmico)
Where: http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/%7Efp/Tcl/Combat/
http://www.vsb.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/%7Emico/
http://www.mico.org/
Description: Tcl interface to MICO (Mico Is COrba). MICO is a free
CORBA 2.0 implementation. MICO provides CORBA client functionality
to Tcl scripts.
Combat plugs into CORBA 2.3's DII (Dynamic Invocation Interface) and
DSI (Dynamic Skeleton Interface) to allow client- and server-side
Tcl scripting.
Also available at the site is an IOR string dump utility, a CORBA
Naming Service (CNS) Client, an Interface Repository (IFR) client
and patches for MICO 2.3.1 which adds support for corbaloc protocol.
A binary distribution for Win32 is also available.
For server-side scripting, you need Tcl 8.0.3+ and [incr Tcl] 3.0+.
Recommended to use MICO 2.3.1 or better.
Currently this is at version 0.6.
The latest version should work with any CORBA 2.3 ORB.
Updated: 05/2000
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Frank Pilhofer)
What: DCOP
Where: From the contact
http://www.kdevelop.org/doc/addendum/
''that dir is empty by 7/2002''
Better links
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/dcop.html
http://www.kde.com/websites/search.php?q=dcop&id=developer.kde.org&ssites%5B%5D=developer.kde.org&noSecCookieLogon=true
No download found yet.
Description: Library for drag and drop support, with bindings for Java,
Python, Perl and Tcl. Allows one to drag and drop between apps of
any of these langauges. Conceptually like COM - a protocol for
applications to speak to one another. DCOP is the interprocess
communication protocol used under KDE - a lightweight alternative
to CORBA.
Updated: 11/2000
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Matthias Kalle Dalheimer)
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What: DpTcl
Where: http://members.cox.net/gerald.lester/DpTcl.tar.gz
Description: A Tcl only package compatible with TclDp,
supplying advanced TCP/IP connectivity.
Not actively maintained
Updated: 12/2005
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Gerald Lester)
What: EasySocket
Where: http://www.cs.umn.edu/%7Edejong/tcl/EasySocket.tar.gz
Description: An OO style Tcl class that provides async socket functionality
without requiring that the user know all the details of socket and
fileevent commands. Currently at version 0.2.
Peter Tutko (see second Contact) has written itcl classes for
EasySocket and was working on a similar class for EasyServer.
Contact him for code.
Updated: 12/1999
Contact: http://www.cs.umn.edu/%7Edejong/
mailto:[email protected]
What: hub
Where: http://home.sprynet.com/%7Eetailor/hub/hub.htm
Description: The HUB is a software message exchange.
It provides reliable dispatching and broadcasting of text messages
that are accessed using internet TCP/IP client connections.
Both server and client code is available. It is not however
dedicated to just being a chat server/client. It can be configured
for broadcasting, message saving, etc.
Updated: 07/2000
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Eric Taylor)
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What: jTcl
Where: http://www.fridu.com/
http://www.fridu.com/Html/jTcl.html
http://www.fridu.com/Html/download.html
Description: A flying Tcl parser allowing Java-like object interface
to Tcl. Provides debugging facilities, network classes, rules
server, serialization mechanism, and a package mechanism similar to
Java's import.
Class libraries for generic tcp client/server, web serving,
application serving, session serving, and rule serving are
provided. Demos of chat, web, and rule servers are provided.
Allows one to design web applications in Tcl with
a Java syntax. It is Tcl only, requires no extensions, and
runs on all platforms supporting Tcl.
Updated: 10/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Philippe Le Foll)
What: NeoSoft Tcl
Where: ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/neosoft/neotcl/
Description: Tcl 7.6 and 8.0 set of commands and libraries providing
interfaces to disk-based btree and hashtables,
TCP/IP server-client objects,
along with examples of an IRC robot object, RFC931 authentication
object, support for WWW CGI scripts, WWW log file parsing.
Also, this includes file requestors, dialog boxes, pull-down menus,
class libraries for databases, listboxes, a Tk notepad, progress
notifiers, UDP-based object sharing, and more. Package includes
Tcl, Tk, itcl, Tcl-DP, tclX, color pixmap and GIF support,
and Expect.
Updated: 10/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Neosoft support)
What: scotty
Where: http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/%7Eschoenw/scotty/
http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/ibr/projects/nm/scotty/
http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/scotty/
ftp://ftp.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/pub/local/tkined/scotty-2.1.9.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/pub/local/tkined/devel/scotty-99-07-04-win.zip
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Eetgold/software/
Description: scotty is a Tcl interpreter with extensions (Tnm) needed to write
network management applications. scotty can send and receive
ICMP packets, query DNS server, create TCP and UDP connections,
retrieve SNMP information, talk HTTP, Sun RPC, and NTP, and
process jobs in an event loop.
Sample applications are provided for the tkined network editor
A CVS repository is available for getting the very latest source.
See the etgold directory for some scripts that use Scotty to get
weather information, manage HP hubs, etc.
Updated: 02/2000
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Tkined/Scotty mailing list admin)
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What: sendx
Where: ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/x11/sendx-0.1/sendx-0.1.tar.gz
Description: Tcl extension implementing commands to send strings or
XStrings to any X11 window via the XSendEvent function.
Updated: 10/1998
Contact: Unknown
What: SIMPL
Where: http://www.holoweb.net/%7Esimpl/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/simpl/
Description: Simple send/receive/reply messaging scheme. Includes a number
of Tcl/Tk applications and tclets.
Open Source developed for Linux.
Currently at v2.3.3.
Updated: 02/2005
Contact: bobfcsoft at users.sourceforge.net
What: SSLtcl
Where: http://www.abc.se/%7Em339/prog/ssl/SSLtcl.html
http://www.abc.se/%7Em9339/prog/ssl/SSLtcl-0.42.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.mc.hik.se/pub/users/mia95anp/ssl/SSLtcl-0.42.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/net/SSLtcl-0.42/SSLtcl-0.42.tar.gz
Description: SSLtcl is a free, loadable module for Tcl that
extends the socket command with SSL (secure socket layer)
functions. It is a thin layer over Eric Young's free
SSLeay. Be sure to carefully research the import and
export restrictions of your country before fetching and
building this package. It requires Tcl 8 and either
SSLeay-0.6.6 or SSleay-0.8.1.
Updated: 10/1999
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Peter Antman)
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What: Tcl IPC interface
Where: ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/alcatel/extensions/tclipc1-0.tar.gz
Description: Implements Tk's send command without requiring Tk or X11.
Updated:
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Kim Gillies)
What: [TCL-DP]
Where: http://tcldp.sourceforge.net (maintained)
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Projects/zeno/Projects/Tcl-DP.html (older, original site)
ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/tcl-dp/current/
ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/tcl-dp/4.0b2/NOTICE
ftp://ftp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/pub/users/roseman/tcl-dp-0.2.sit.hqx
Description: Tcl Distributed Programming - a public domain extension
which adds TCP/IP connection management, remote
procedure call and distributed object protocols to Tcl/Tk.
Tcl-DP 4.0 is now dynamically loadable for Tcl 7.6 that adds support
for TCP, UDP, IPM, serial ports, email as well as the ability to
perform RPCs over any channel. It has been tested on
SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris 2.5, Linux 2.0.29, HP-UX 9.05, Windows NT 4.0,
and Windows 95.
The roseman file is an alpha port of Tcl-DP to PowerMac.
Updated: 08/2010
Contact: mailto:[email protected]
mailto:[email protected] or
mailto:[email protected]
mailto:[email protected]
What: Tcl-DP with caller id
Where: From the contact
Description: A modification of rpc.tcl to call the in.indentd process to
see who is making a request.
Updated:
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Tom Sandholm)
What: Tcl-DP with Multicast IP
Where: ftp://agate.lut.ac.uk/pub/mbone/tdpm3.2.tar.Z
Description: A version of Tcl-DP 3.2 which is patched to include
support for multicast IP communications. It also has an early
prototype of a late-binding RPC system.
Updated:
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Jon P. Knight)
What: Tcl RPC (Shorter)
Where: ftp://ftp.globalware.com/pub/tcl/tcl-RPC-1.3.0.tar.gz
Description: Provides an RPC interface on top of Tcl 7.5's socket command.
This provides some level of replacement for Tcl-DP 3.3b1.
Updated:
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Michael E Shorter)
What: Tcl-RPC
Where: http://www.zveno.com/zm.cgi/in-tclxml/in-xmlrpc.tml
Description: A new Tcl 8.1.1 package that implements the XML-RPC
protocol for both client and server. This package may be
able to be downgraded to earlier versions of Tcl if necessary.
This package includes an interface to the Tcl web server (tcl-httpd)
which results in a nice embeddable version of an XML-RPC server.
Minimal documentation is currently available.
A mailing list is available - see the web site for details.
Updated: 06/1999
Contact: mailto:[email protected]
What: Tcl UDP extension
Where: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcludp/
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~xiaotaow/main/index.htm
Description: The Tcl UDP extension provides a simple library to support UDP
sockets in Tcl. Supports TCL 8.4 and newer on UNIX and Windows.
Updated: 08/2010
Contact: [email protected] (Xiaotao Wu)
What: Tcl UDP
Where: From the contact
Description: Tcl extended to support UDP sockets as an extension.
Contact considering extending this into a dynamically loadable
extension for full socket functionality, so that sockets need not
be in the core.
Updated: 12/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Sami Khoury)
What: TclDii
Where: http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/dice/iss/TclDii.html
Description: Integration of Tcl with IONA's Orbix ORB.
This is a Tcl front-end to the CORBA Dynamic Invocation Interface,
extending Tcl so that scripts can send CORBA service requests.
Updated:
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Bernhard Merkle)
What: tcliop
Where: http://cybermarche.dmssoft.com/%7Ealmasi/tcliop/mapping.htm
Description: CORBA 2.0/IIOP extension for Tcl.
Updated: 12/1996
Contact: mailto:[email protected]
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What: TclIR
Where: ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/tclIR-0.9.tar.gz
Description: An extension to add CORBA calls (via Dynamic Invocation
Interface with the help of the Interface Repository). Uses
Orbix CORBA client library. Written in C++. Tested on
Solaris 2.4 with OrbixMT 1.3.4.
Updated: 10/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected]
What: tclRawTCP
Where: ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/tclRawTCP.shar.gz
Description: Raw TCP package for Tcl/Tk based on tcpConnect.
Updated: 10/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Vivek Khera)
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What: tclSSL
Where: http://www.bringardner.com/tony/tclssl.tar.gz
http://www.psy.uq.oz.au/%7Eftp/Crypto/
Description: Tcl dynamic load package that provides an interface to
Eric Young's mailto:[email protected] implementation of
SSL and supporting libraries with Tcl to provide SSL
protection to sockets. SSL capability is added to the socket
with a -ssl option.
Updated: 10/1999
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Tony Bringardner)
What: tclTCP
Where: ftp://ftp.atd.ucar.edu/pub/vanandel/tclTCP2.2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/tclTCP2.2.tar.gz
Description: Tcl 7.[45] based BSD socket library extension. Allows Tcl/Tk
applications to communicate without using Tk's "send" command.
It does not require patching the Tcl or Tk sources and does not
require Tk or X. It provides a simple event handling
capability for Tcl applications to handle file I/O and "whenIdle" calls.
Note that non-Tcl applications can send commands to a Tcl interpreter
via a socket if the Tcl application uses tclTCP.
Updated: 10/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Joe VanAndel)
What: tclTCP+
Where: ftp://ftp.wag.caltech.edu/pub/kis/bin/tclTCP+1.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/tclTCP+1.1.tar.gz
Description: Adds inetd, timer, fork, nowait and other commands to tclTCP.
Updated: 10/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected]
What: TclUdp (Bornmann)
Where: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/%7Echrisbo/udp/ (???)
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/comm/tcludp-1.1/tcludp-1.1.tar.gz
http://www.cs.tamu.edu/people/mmiller/tcl/
Description: Extension to Tcl 7.5 to provide access to UDP sockets. Available
for Unix and Windows.
More about tcludp at tamu.
Updated: 12/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Christopher Brendan Bornmann)
What: tcludp (Miller)
Where: http://www.cs.tamu.edu/people/mmiller/tcl/
Description: Extension to add text based UDP datagrams to Tcl 7.6 or 8.0.
Works with Tcl on Solaris, OSF1, Linux, and SCO Unix.
Updated: 10/1999
Contact: mailto:[email protected]
What: tclXtsend
Where: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries/tclXtSend.1.0.tar.Z
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/tclXtSend.2.0.tar.gz
Description: Allow Xt applications to send msgs to Tk applications. Version
1.0 works with Tk 3.x and version 2.0 works with Tk 4.x.
Updated: 11/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Jan Newmarch)
What: tcpConnect
Where: ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/tcpConnect.shar.gz
Description: Tcl/Tk TCP extensions
Updated: 10/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Pekka Nikander)
What: Tk send reliability enhancement
Where: From the contact
Description: A wrapper for Tk's send to provide a more reliable RPC
mechanism. Most importantly, the typical timeout of the send is
avoided. It is called rpc.tcl and should soon show up on archives.
Updated:
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Robert LoVerso)
What: Tk without X (beta)
Where: ftp://toe.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/misc/tknx0.3.tar.Z
Description: A version of Tk without the X dependent code. Allows the
construction of programs using send, after and a few of the
other non-X specific commands. Useful to use with Tcl-DP.
Updated:
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Brian Smith)
What: Tkpvm
Where: http://www.cogsci.kun.nl/tkpvm/welcome.html
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/tkpvm1.1.tar.gz
http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/pvm3.3.11.tar.gz
http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/.
Description: An interface between a parallel virtual machine library
and Tcl/Tk. Treats a number of machines as if they were really a
single machine. Also has an enhanced capability to communicate
between processes. Each process in the virtual machine communicates
through a pvm-channel based send command rather than Tk's X11
based send command. Supported only on Tcl 7.6plus (or Itcl 2.1),
Tk 4.2plus, and PVM 3.3.x.
Tkpvm does not yet work with Tcl 8.0 or PVM3.4.
Updated: 10/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Jan Nijtmans)
What: TLS
Where: http://www.sensus.org/tcl/
http://www.openssl.org/
Description: OpenSSL extension for Tcl, utilizing any standard Tcl
bi-directional channel (not just sockets). Requires Tcl 8.x,
Trf core patch. Runs under Win32 and Unix.
Currently at version 1.3.
Updated: 06/2000
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Matt Newman)
What: Torb
Where: http://pythontech.co.uk/torb/
Description: Alpha release of Tcl/CORBA interface, allowing CORBA
operations to be invoked from Tcl applications. Potentially works
with any ORB which supports the standard C language mapping, though
initially only ORBit is supported.
Updated: 06/1999
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Colin Hogben)
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What: TxRx
Where: http://se.aminet.net/pub/lang/tcl/sorted/net/txrx1.0/txrx1.0.tar.gz
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/tcl97/full_papers/poster_mata/mata_html/txrx.html
Description: Dynamically loadable package that enables Tcl programs to
call or service Remote Procedure Calls (RPC). Complies with
RFC 1831. This helps in the development of distributed applications
compatible with ONC RPC. With TxRX, it becomes possible to
write a WebNFS client and server in Tcl.
Updated: 09/2006
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Cristian Mata) ???
What: Unix-domain sockets
Where: http://gpu.utcc/%7Epkern/tcl-socket/ (broken link) - probably now here: http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~pkern/tcl-socket/
Description: primitive attempt to enhance tcl socket command to
use both unix domain (filename) as well as network sockets.
Updated: 10/1999
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Paul Kern)
What: X.25 sockets
Where: ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/comm/x25tcl/0.1.0/
Description: Tcl package to access X.25 sockets in the form
of a Tcl_Channel.
Updated: 07/1999
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (D. J. Hagberg)
[voominc] - 2010-08-10 18:53:49The
Tcl-DP extension supports remote process communication. It also has a C-API that allows a non-Tcl client to connect to a Tcl-DP server. I have updated Tcl-DP to work with Tcl 8.5, current Linux versions (Fedora 11) and Windows XP.
