What you're talking about is simply 'protocol'. As you control both sides of the communication, you can use any protocol you like - making one up to suit your needs would probably be as easy as bending another (HTTP, SOAP etc) to fit.

If, for instance, you're wanting to send a number of encrypted key-value pairs, this could be as simple as 

use Crypt::Simple;
print MYSOCKET encrypt(join(":",map {"$_=$vals{$_}"} keys %vals));

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...and a quick split/map/decrypt on the other end will reproduce the hash.

RPC (and thus SOAP) is more often used where you're sending 'objects' back and forth, allowing a client to perform Remote Procedure Calls...overkill for simply sending 'data'.

Having just knocked out a moderately-sized wxWindows app btw, I can (charitably) say that the documentation gives you just enough (with a couple of very minor errors / omissions), and I'd definitely use it again for all my advanced GUI needs. :)

Cheers, Ben.

In reply to Re: Distributing Perl GUI Clients for Server Apps by benn
in thread Distributing Perl GUI Clients for Server Apps by Anonymous Monk

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