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The basic point of distributed programming is to let computers communicate between themselves. The simplest and most common form of distributed programming is the web service. Web services work on top of HTTP: they generally involve sending an HTTP request to a certain URL (possibly including an XML document), and getting a response in the form of another XML document. An excellent article and code on writing Web services in Ruby.