D 2015-03-14T13:31:44.048
L Web\sServices\sfor\sTcl\s(aka\stclws)
P d12f4ea8da503cee6c6f552f43050d110490aaf0
U gwlester
W 3061
<h1>Summary</h1>

<p>
The distribution provides both client side access to Web Services and server side creation of Web Services. Currently only document/literal and rpc/encoded with HTTP Soap transport are supported on the client side. The server side currently works with several web servers(see below).  It provides all services as document/literal over HTTP Soap transport. Documentation for the package, including examples can be found here. The distribution consist of several packages.
</p>

<h1>Mirrors</h1>
<p>
This project has the following public repositories:
<ul>
<li>[http://core.tcl.tk/tclws|Core Tcl/Tk host] -- This is the main repository.  Please enter all tickets, checkin, etc here.
<li>[http://chiselapp.com/user/gwlester/repository/tclws/index|Chisel App host]
</ul>
</p>
<p>
If you decide to make a public mirror of this repository, please [mailto:Gerald.Lester@gmail.com|email] me to location so that we can list it here.
</p>

<h1>Documentation</h1>
Documentation for the  tclws package is available at the following links:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://core.tcl.tk/tclws/doc/tip/docs/index.html">Current Trunk</a>
<li><a href="http://core.tcl.tk/tclws/doc/Release_2.3.8/docs/index.html">Version 2.3.8</a>
</ul>

<p>
The client is known to work with several providers of  Web Services (your mileage may very).
Also these [clients] have been tested to work with the Web Services provided by the WS::Server (server side) package of tclws.
</p>

<h1>Web Servers</h1>

<p>
 The server side works with the following web servers (see [WebServerSettings| Web Server Settings] for known required options):
<ul> 
<li> [http://tclhttpd.sourceforge.net/|TclHttpd]
 <li> Apache with [http://tcl.apache.org/rivet|Rivet]
 <li> [http://www.aolserver.com|AOLserver]
 <li> [http://code.google.com/p/wub/|WUB]
 <li> [http://wiki.tcl.tk/23626|wibble]
 <li> Embedded mode (see [Embedding])
 <li> Microsoft Internet Information Server
</ul>
</p>

<h1>Download</h1>

<p>
ZIP and Tarball files are available for downloading at the [Downloads] page.
</p>

<h1>License</h1>

<p>
Standard BSD [license].
</p>

<h1>Packages Required</h1>

<p>
The following packages are used:
<ul>
<li> [http://tcl.sf.net/|Tcl 8.5] 
 <li> [http://www.tdom.org|tdom 0.8.1]
 <li> [http://tls.sf.net|tls]
 <li> log from [http://tcllib.sf.net/|TclLib]
 <li> uri from [http://tcllib.sf.net/|TclLib]
 <li> struct::set from [http://tcllib.sf.net/|TclLib]
 <li> http from [http://tcl.sf.net/|Tcl] itself 
</ul>
</p>

<p>
Additionally, if you are running the [http://tclhttpd.sourceforge.net/|TclHttpd] on Windows, it is highly recommended that you use the [http://sourceforge.net/projects/iocpsock|iocpsock] extension. 
</p>

<p>
Lastly the following packages are additionally used in Embedded mode:
<ul>
 <li> base64 from [http://tcllib.sf.net/|TclLib]
 <li> html from [http://tcllib.sf.net/|TclLib]
 <li> ncgi from [http://tcllib.sf.net/|TclLib]
 <li> fileutil from [http://tcllib.sf.net/|TclLib]
</ul>
</p>
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