Web Services

The SocketTools Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) control can be used to interact with a web server, requesting resources, executing scripts and submitting form data for processing. This section of the Quick Start Guide will cover how to use the control to establish connections to a web server, request resources and post form data to a script.

In addition the HTTP control also supports protocol extensions such as WebDAV for distributed authoring. It can be used to automate certain processes and enable your application to interact directly with a program running on the server without having to use a browser interface.