I'm trying to figure out how to send some data from my app. to the UK
Government Gateway over the internet via HTTPS. I'm using D7 Pro.
All messages to the gateway are in the form of an XML envelope with the data
in a <body> section. No probs. But this is not a SOAP service and they tell
me there are no such things as WSDL files for the service.
Now after sorting out the XML generation and conversion of my data I'm
trying to find out how to send this stuff. Forgive me if I'm ignorant but
here is what I've learnt so far:-
As this is a secure website, i must use SSL. For this reason I can't use
Indy as it requires a separate DLL for its SSL implementation?
Which leaves me with another point, I do not want any other tools or DLLs to
have to be deployed. This is going to be given to people to help them get
data through the gateway and I just want to be able to give one exe file.
All the PCs it may get deployed on will have IE with 128bit cipher.
So I guess this means I need to use TcpClient or maybe the WinInet.pas? But
can I find any tutorials anywhere? No. Everyone, even all the books I have,
assume that I'm going to write a web server "then we'll just tack the client
bit on here".
Sorry for the long winded post.
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Siôn Jones
sion@bronsi.fsnet.co.uk
