Newsgroups : Borland : borland.public.delphi.internet.winsock : 2007 Jan : Re: Wrapping Inet to get HTTPS support with Indy?
| Subject: | Re: Wrapping Inet to get HTTPS support with Indy? |
| Posted by: | "dk_sz" (dk_..@hotmail.com) |
| Date: | Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:53:12 |
> It requires the OpenSSL library. The latest version of Indy 10 uses
> the official DLLs from http://www.openssl.org. Indy 9, and older
Yeah OK. Problem just is it puts the responsiblity on
me with regards to encryption technology. I suspect that
is the same reason you opted for an external solution.
If there was some way to use an OS component,
one would not need to worry about it at all AFAIK.
> provides functionality that WinInet doesn't. Also, because Indy is
> cross-platform, any wrapper interface around WinInet would have to be
I have not studied the architecture of Indy to have any
formed meaning about this. But if it had been possible to
"plug-in" (e.g. uses clause or whatever) a Windows only
SSL solution, that could probably still make many happy :-)
best regards
Thomas Schulz