I'm about to start working on a GUI client for a server app which is written in Python but I'd like to use Perl for the GUI. I'm currently looking at using Tk due to the excellent amount of reference material out there (as opposed to something like wxWindows). The one thing I'm getting stuck on is the method of client-server communication.

I know very little about SOAP, RPC, and the like (those terms could even be redundant, I wouldn't know). What I'm looking for is something similar to query strings from HTML forms - with two exceptions: 1. I'm going to be encrypting all transmitted information and 2. I'd like to avoid the messy character escaping. Sorry for the vagueness but I only have half an idea what I'm doing ;-)

My question to the monks is, what have you found to be the most effective method for sending moderate amounts of encrypted text data from a GUI client?

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