I do not think it is an activex, but an api
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wininet/wininet/about_wininet.asp
SSL should be considered very seriously especially with credit card details.
I think it is very important to use/consider all the security issues ...
Also what about the users who need to dial a connection, or use a proxy
server? All these things are automatically handled by wininet...
Cristian Nicola
"tony caduto" <tony@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:438de166@newsgroups.borland.com...
> >
> Not super familiar with that, but it is a ActiveX control and in my
> experience those can be a PITA sometimes, and in this case I believe it
> is tied to the version of IE installed on the target PC, so there may be
> compatibility/deployment issues.
> It's always better to go with a native Delphi solution. The OpenSSl dlls
> are small and may already exist on target PCs.
