Herong's Tutorial Notes on Perl - Part B

Version 4.11

Dr. Herong Yang

Copyright © 1995 - 2006 by Dr. Herong Yang. All rights reserved.

Table of Contents

About This Book

Socket Communication

• What Is a Socket
• Establishing a Socket Communication
• ReverseEchoer.pl - A Simple Socket Server Application
• SocketClient.pl - A Simple Socket Client Application
• Network Utility Functions
• Socket Module

XML::Simple Module

• XML::Simple Methods
• XML::Simple Options
• "forcearray" Example - XmlSimpleArray.pl
• "suppressempty" Example - XmlSimpleEmpty.pl
• "keyattr" Example - XmlSimpleKey.pl
• Hash Modification Example - XmlSimpleHash.pl

XML in Client and Server Communication

• XML Client and Server Communication Model
• XML with Socket Communication Example - GameServer.pl
• XML with Socket Communication Example - GameClient.pl

SOAP::Lite Modules

• What is SOAP?
• What is SOAP::Lite?
• SOAP::Transport::TCP Module
• SOAP::Lite Module
• SOAP::Lite Tracing

SOAP::Transport::HTTP Modules

• SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Daemon Module

Running Perl Programs with IIS

• Configuring IIS 5.0 for Perl Programs
• perl.exe vs. perlis.dll

Common Gateway Interface

• What Is Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
• IIS Environment Variables
• CGI Query String
• A Simple CGI Application - Calculator.pl

XML-RPC Protocol

• What is XML-RPC?
• XML-RPC Specifications

RPC::XML Module

• What Is RPC::XML?
• Installing NMake 1.5
• Installing RPC::XML Module
• RPC::XML Server and Client Sample Programs
• RpcXmlServer2.pl - Receiving an Array

References

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