REBOL 3 Concepts: Protocols

Pending Revision

This document was written for R2 and has yet to be revised for R3.

Overview

REBOL includes several of the primary Internet service protocols built-in. These protocols are easy to use within your scripts; they require no extra libraries or include files, and many useful operations can be done with only a single line of source code.

The protocols listed in [bad-link:concepts/network.txt] Protocols are supported:

DNS	Domain Name Service: translates computer names into addresses and addresses into names.
Finger	Obtains information about a user from their profile.
Whois	Obtains information about domain registration.
Daytime	Network Time Protocol. Gets the time from a server.
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Used for the Web.
SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. Used for sending email.
POP	Post Office Protocol. Used for fetching email.
FTP	File Transfer Protocol. Exchanges files with a server.
NNTP	Network News Transfer Protocol. Posts or reads Usenet news.
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol. Basic Internet protocol.
UDP	User Datagram Protocol. Packet-based protocol.

In addition, you can create handlers for other Internet protocols or make your own custom protocols.