TCP/IP Scripting Addition

• Version: 1.2
• Author: Atul Butte
• Requirements: AppleScript
• Cost: $0-$5000 (shareware)
• Pros: facilitates TCP/IP communications through AppleScripts
• Cons: none
• Remote location: <URL:>
• Tricks location: <URL:http://152.1.24.177/teaching/archives/tcp-scripting-addition.hqx>

The TCP/IP Scripting Additions provide you with the means of opening TCP/IP connections to remote services through AppleScript. Theoretically, this means you could write your own WWW server using this scripting addition and AppleScript. In fact, with the distribution of the TCP/IP Scripting Addition comes a gopher server in the form of an AppleScript application. Realistically, this tool can be used in our server scripts to create very simple Internet clients. For example, you can use the TCP/IP Scripting Additions to send email from within a server script. You could write a program implementing the finger protocol and provide an interface to your script through a WWW server. You could use the TCP/IP Scripting Addition to write a URL checking program. Besides the more practical purposes, learning how to use the TCP/IP Scripting Additions will give you a better insight into the inner workings of TCP/IP communications.

Eric last edited this page on September 26, 1995. Please feel free to send comments.