Connecting to XML-RPC services
Using XML-RPC to call commands remotely from Tcl is trivial. A new Tcl command will be created for each method, which makes invoking remote functions almost the same as invoking local commands.
As mentioned earlier, invoking any XML-RPC command requires knowing the available remote methods and their definitions. We also need to know the address of the remote service.
Invoking a command using XML-RPC will look similar to:
All requests are sent over HTTP or HTTPS to the remote application, building an XML-RPC message and sending it in the request. The response is also XML-RPC content and is then parsed by the XMLRPC
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