Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, Third Edition

Integrating TclHttpd with your Application

The bulk of this chapter describes the various ways you can extend the server and integrate it into your application. TclHttpd is interesting because, as a Tcl script, it is easy to add to your application. Suddenly your application has an interface that is accessible to Web browsers in your company's intranet or the global Internet. The Web server provides several ways you can connect it to your application:

• Static pages. As a “normal” web server, you can serve static documents that describe your application.

• Domain handlers. You can arrange for all URL requests in a section of your Web site to be handled by your application. This is a very general interface where you interpret what the URL means and ...