[twsocket] Test message, please do not respond

Test message, please do not respond -- François Piette -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be

Re: [twsocket] using Twsocket with a few thousand clients

> why when i give each client its own DataAvaialbe i hav eno problems at all > what is the diffrence ? and should i do that with all other events ? Your question is not clear. Please reformulate it and keep a SHORT summary of the previous message, just enough to understand what you ask. To have

Re: [twsocket] Freeze on TWSocketServer close

>> My program (a service) hosts 4 TWSocketServers in main thread. >> Sometimes, when I ask the service to stop, the program freeze >> after I call TWSocketServer Close function >You are assuming all sockets disconnect instantly and are the freeing >the component, when activity may still be

Re: [twsocket] using Twsocket with a few thousand clients

I forget to say that to support a few thousand simultaneous client, it is likely that yu should pour TWSocketServer code into a thread to service, let's say, 500 client per thread. And you should probably NOT use the main thread to run TWSocketServer code. Be aware that ICS is asynchronous and

Re: [twsocket] using Twsocket with a few thousand clients

> i have created a tcp server using Twsocket but after 40 clients connected > the server stopped from listing There is nothing in ICS which limits the numbers of simultaneous client. Only machine and operating system resources are limiting. To handle a few thousands simultaneous connections, it

Re: [twsocket] Idle Socket is closed even with KeepAlive under windows

> I working on a device communication protocol using TCP with > TWSocketServer and TWSocket. (Delphi XE Project) Strange protocol. Do you have a formal description of the actual protocol? -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the

[twsocket] ICS registration

Hi ! As you subscribed to ICS support mailing list, you probably use ICS. Good ! But have you taken time to register your ICS copy ? ICS is freeware but to use it, you must register it. Registration is very simple: just mail a [real, paper] picture postcard to the author (me). You can

Re: [twsocket] New version for Android and Linux

> I read on some website that the next version of ICS will be compatible with Android. Already have some forecast of the next version? That is true that I started the port. But I lack time to do it on my spare time. I'm waiting for a sponsor company... I the past, I developed the SSL version

Re: [twsocket] OverbyteIcsFtpCli unrecognised

> [dcc32 Fatal Error] main.pas(15): F2613 Unit 'OverbyteIcsFtpCli' not found. You have 3 choices: 1) Add the path where you have installed ICS to the global search path in the IDE 2) Add the path where you have installed ICS to the global search path for the project 3) Add to the project the

[twsocket] Test 3

Please don’t reply to this Test message. -- François Piette -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be

[twsocket] Test 2

Please do not respond to this test message. -- François Piette -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be

Re: [twsocket] Wiki and Website down

Hi ! Up and running again. -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS) http://www.overbyte.be -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto

[twsocket] Mailing list test

The list was down. Just cheking if it works now. -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS) http://www.overbyte.be -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list

[twsocket] Wiki and Website down

Hi everyone, I’m sorry to tell you that currently www.overbyte.be et wiki.overbyte.be are down. One of the server disk failed and for unknown reason the RAID system is incredibly slow, making the server unusable. I’m working on it. Be patient. --

Re: [twsocket] Getting an exception EHttpException in module myapp.exe at 00000000. Request aborted on timeout.

> Getting an exception EHttpException in module myapp.exe at . Request aborted on timeout. You should instrument your program with madExcept or similar product so that you get a stack trace and other informations when the exception occurs. You'll then probably quickly find the cause.

Re: [twsocket] Twsocket Problem over Internet.

Not correct. Please narow your question. Make it more specific. Describe your "problem". Try to apply the advice we gave to you in previous answers. Have you read the two article link I gave to you a few days ago ? We will not write the code for you. Regards, -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be The

Re: [twsocket] Twsocket Problem over Internet.

> Your receiving is also likely to fail, LineMode should not be used when you expect binary data, Agreed. > and makes a program more complex than necessary swapping back and forward while receiving, checking line end is not very hard. Disagreed. What would be easier for Fatimire is to send

Re: [twsocket] Twsocket Problem over Internet.

Hi ! Sending is OK although not optimal because of buffering. At least, be sure to no close the socket before the sending is done: TWSocket will buffer data for you (up to the amount of available ram space). It is bette as Angus said, to send by blocks. For receiving, you must first receive the

Re: [twsocket] Wiki...

Problem is fixed, at least as seen from here. There was a file system error. No idea where it came from. If was no a disk space issue: there are still a few GB available on disk. Let me know if everything is OK and specially if your last changes/uploads are valid. -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be

Re: [twsocket] TSslHttpCli on runtime

> in my project I have a TStringGrid with some lines, > I need to create a TSslHttpCli component for each grid line, > and make independent simultaneous connections, I create a Thread for each line This is definitely not required with ICS. A single thread, even the main thread can handle a

[twsocket] wiki.overbyte.be should be working

The issue with http://wiki.overbyte.be should be fixed. There is a redirection to the .eu wiki. Let me know as soon as you discover an issue with one of ICS websites. Regards, -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the

Re: [twsocket] OpenSSL 1.1.0f and 1.0.2l support

alf Of François Piette Sent: May 26, 2017 10:24 To: 'ICS support mailing' <twsocket@lists.elists.org> Subject: Re: [twsocket] OpenSSL 1.1.0f and 1.0.2l support Is DNS resolution working ? I mean does wiki.overbyte.be answers ? (It is redirected to the .eu) Anybody else having issue

Re: [twsocket] OpenSSL 1.1.0f and 1.0.2l support

Is DNS resolution working ? I mean does wiki.overbyte.be answers ? (It is redirected to the .eu) Anybody else having issue with http://wiki.overbyte.be or http://www.overbyte.be ? -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the freeware

Re: [twsocket] OpenSSL 1.1.0f and 1.0.2l support

> http://wiki.overbyte.eu/wiki/index.php/ICS_Download > PLEASE NOTE the EU in the URL, not BE, this is a new wiki server. BE suffix works as well ! And it is even the preferred address. -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the

[twsocket] DNS issue solved

). Let me know whenever you experience difficulties. Have a nice day. -- François Piette -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be

[twsocket] RAD Studio Survey

Embarcadero currently conduce a survey about their products (Mainly Delphi and C++ Builder). There are several places where you can plug ICS in the “other” reply. Don’t forget to do it when it applies! Anyway, it is interesting for you and all the community to tell Embarcadero what you think.

Re: [twsocket] overbyte.be down?

> I'm I right that www.overbyte.be is down ? I was since a few days. Now the problem is solved and you should be able to access http://www.overbyte.be and http://wiki.overbyte.be again. By the way, my email address was also down. It is up and running again but I probably lost the messages

Re: [twsocket] TWsocket transfer TmemoryStream

> Always is needed use the OnDataSent event ? > I need only transfer the tmemorystream off a Timage1 to Timage2 over twsocket. You may send a huge block of data in one Send call. An entire image if you like. BUT remember TWSocket is asynchronous and transmitting data over the network takes time.

Re: [twsocket] TWSocket Client Timeout.

Hello Alexandre, There is nothing preventing data from a TTimer event. Are you using "sync" functions or "async" functions ? Are you using wait loops ? When you send data from TTimer event, is this "transparent" to the protocol you are using ? Maybe the data send from TTimer interfere with data

Re: [twsocket] OpenSSL 1.1.0c support

are now digitally code signed 'Open Source Developer, François PIETTE', the lead developer for ICS. Digital code signing allows Windows to automatically check the authenticity and origin of binaries and whether they have been corrupted or patched. In File Explorer, right click on a file, Properties

Re: [twsocket] More friendly winsock exceptions

> We also have a long term problem with the OnError event. It skips raising an exception and > simply calls the event without the actual error information being available, and in a few > places continues program flow, not sure how useful this is, it probably confuses users. The OnError event

Re: [twsocket] More friendly winsock exceptions

> It's annoyed me for many years that many internet applications give unfriendly errors, > sometimes just five digit error codes, sometimes terse messages. > Specifically, when starting a server on an address and port that is being used, > the current ICS exception is: > Address already in use

Re: [twsocket] Recent SSL improvements and OpenSSL 1.1.0

> This message attempts to summarise SSL changes in ICS in the last six months, up to V8.33. I would like to thanks Angus for his huge work on ICS-SSL. This is a wonderful work. Congratulations Angus, -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The

Re: [twsocket] The hosting site for the list will go to maintenance Friday 26/08/2016 evening to Saturday until done

> Why not use a Forum instead of mailing lists ? This has been discussed a lot of times along all the years. In short: No, I don't like forum for many reasons. Btw: This wouldn't change anything related to maintenance. -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be The author of the freeware multi-tier

Re: [twsocket] Can TSmtpCli be used to connect to an MS Exchange Server?

> The office recently changed to using a Microsoft Exchange server and > I need to continue sending out emails from our Delphi application > Can this be done? You must enable Exchange POP3 connector: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124934(v=exchg.150).aspx > If so, what do I used

Re: [twsocket] Request for access to the mailing list

> I've requested to be added to the TWSocket mailing but have not had any response. Obviously you are connected since the message I answer to is from the mailing list... > Approximately how many active users are on the mailing list? Something like 700. > Can I post my questions on this list?

Re: [twsocket] Version Delphi Berlin

> Hello, have any plans to release a version for the latest version of dellphi, Berlin? the component will continue? It is already available. See http://wiki.overbyte.be/wiki/index.php/ICS_Download -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author

Re: [twsocket] From Indy to ICS and ICS implementation

> I'm currently using Indy to communicate with TCP/IP devices. We have about > 3 devices and growing. We're getting to the point where the number > of concurrent connections are too many too handle for a single Indy server > instance. I have to start looking at load balancing but before I do

Re: [twsocket] Check Remote Port

> Is there any easier way to check if a port is open on a remote server at runtime ? The only reliable way to check for open port is to try to connect to it. If you get error 10061, then the port is not opened at server side. Btw: In you code, it is better to not use a wait loop. Instead use

Re: [twsocket] SSL post extremely slow

Hello, You are updating your progress bar and memo in the event, each time it is called. This probably slow down everything. Please retest without any GUI interaction during transfer. -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the

Re: [twsocket] Android version of ICS?

> Is there even a future for Delphi? Well, this is not the lace to discuss this topic but I'm convinced there is a future as a cross platform. -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS)

[twsocket] ICS reaches 20 years !

Hi ! I’m proud to say that ICS reaches 20 years next month. -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS) http://www.overbyte.be -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for

Re: [twsocket] Android version of ICS?

> Years ago, (could be decades now) I sent my postcard to France and tried to use ICS. Actually you sent your postcard to Belgium :-) > none of my clients care or expressly do not want their application running on a tablet or phone. I started to port TWSocket to Android, thinking that some of

Re: [twsocket] Pinging multipe hosts

> I will be writing both server and client softwares. No need for a web server. Then it is easy for you to add an application level ping. That is each server will response to a simple command ("Hello") with a simple answer ("OK"). One or more clients can periodically send that "Hello " command

Re: [twsocket] Pinging multipe hosts

> I have a Windows service application. That needs to check if several hosts (IP numbers, > no need to DNS resolve) are still alive. Assuming easiest way to ping them. Since that will > require no installation on my clients at all. Please suggest other ways that you think apply. Ping messages

Re: [twsocket] How do i Send Recive Client list using Twsocketserver and Twsocket?

Hello, > i converted the indy client and server To TWsocket and Twsocket server and here is the code of server after convert Instead of publishing a lot of some competing socket component that no one will read, please ask specific question about ICS and TWSocket; Don't forget to look in the

Re: [twsocket] How do i Send Recive Client list using Twsocketserver and Twsocket?

> ics dont have any sample on how to send receive memory stream i no this is nothing to do with indy i thought i can use ics in same way TWSocket has a Send method which you can use to send any data providing a pointer and a count. This is perfect for sending a TMemoryStream:

Re: [twsocket] THttpCli and XML...

> I switched to a TWSocket and sent the complete post URL, parameters and XML data in one send > and the server responded without error. So, the header data the THttpCli component was adding > to the XML document was not allowed by the server. Only the XML data. This makes me thinking your

Re: [twsocket] Wiki...

Hello, Sorry, I have not seen your email. Please resent it by forwarding this one to me directly. -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS) http://www.overbyte.be -Message

Re: [twsocket] Lazarus/FPC/Linux...

> Would making V8 work be a huge undertaking? > I see that V8 supports POSIX. So maybe it would work with Lazarus/FPC/Linux? I have no idea about the work required to make ICS work with Lazarus/FPC/Linux. I only guess it is not trivial since whatever they say, FPC is far from being compatible

Re: [twsocket] TWSocket Digest, Vol 634, Issue 1

> Registered, but it won't let me edit TnScript page, seems I need to be in the 'writer' group to do edits. You have to email me privately the usercode you selected, then I can give you write access. -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The

Re: [twsocket] Please delete my ticket

Hello, Each list recipient received your message as an email. Some list recipient are making an online archive which I doesn't control. You must ask those sites to remove your message from their archive. Sorry. -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware

Re: [twsocket] Old versions of OpenSSL

I'd assume most users what to keep up to date with the latest encryption standards and ciphers and try to use the latest OpenSSL versions. Agreed. -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be Embarcadero MVP http://www.overbyte.be http://francois-piette.blogspot.com -Message d'origine- De :

Re: [twsocket] Sending font styles and colors over network

am building a chat system and I want to send basic text chat with font size/font color/font styles for each user am doing this via strings and sending to server and back to client but I noticed after a while and when more then a few users are typing the text chat becomes unstable and

[twsocket] TR: OverbyteIcsFtpCli.pas error ?

-Message d'origine- De : Nicolas MARCHAND [mailto:nicolas.march...@club-internet.fr] Envoyé : lundi 1 décembre 2014 16:53 À : francois.pie...@overbyte.be; arno.garr...@gmx.de Objet : OverbyteIcsFtpCli.pas error ? Hello François and Arno, I really thank you for your components ! J'ai

Re: [twsocket] ICS updated for Delphi XE6

Did you have to change anything in your ICS to make it work for Delphi XE6? Nothing serious. -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be

[twsocket] ICS updated for Delphi XE6

Hi everyone ! ICS-V8 has been updated for Delphi XE6. No new feature, simple update for Delphi XE6 (VCL and FMX). Download as usual. -- François Piette -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: [twsocket] sendfile

can i request please for an updated sendfile example found in overbyte.be site? i simply need it transfer file in our network This sample is maybe not the best one. Depends on what type of transfer you actually need. Please tell us your requirements. The easiest is to use the FTP or HTTP

Re: [twsocket] TWsocketServer and ENQ ascii char

En fait j'ai trouvé le problème , j'avais mis LineMode à false pour le TWSocketServer , mais il fallait le mettre à false pour le TWsocketClient également. Yes, indeed. TWSocketServer doesn't transfer any data. It is delegated to a TWSocket (Actually a TWSocketClient which Is a TWSocket having

Re: [twsocket] TWsocketServer and ENQ ascii char

I use the tcp-ip to connect medical devices via the standard protocol ASTM . ASTM is the name of a standardization organization which probably - among other things - publish the protocol you are using. Is any reference document describing the protocol available? In ASTM to establish

Re: [twsocket] Multiple TCp clients

Make sense but if you have a few TWSocets running at the same time and from every connection writing to a shared TMemo you do not need to synchronize it somehow ? If you application is single threaded, no you don't need any synchronization, it is built-in by Windows message queue system. If

Re: [twsocket] Multiple TCp clients

It seems that you are facing a common issue with Windows application, sharing resources. In your case the shared resource is the memo. He didn't say his program is multithreaded. And he don't need multithreading with TWSocket and there is definitely no such issue. --

Re: [twsocket] Multiple TCp clients

guess is that using only one OndataReceive event will so a long way to resolving this Do you have a postcard from Orillia, Ontario, Canada yet? Regards Lusty -Original Message- From: François Piette Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 1:07 PM To: 'ICS support mailing' Subject: Re

Re: [twsocket] Handshake of TWSocket

is there anybody who can and will explain to me if the socket handshake protocol is implemented and how the handshake works ? I have problems connecting to socket applications using handshake. A socket by itself is not a protocol nor it implement any handshake. A socket is just an

Re: [twsocket] TWSocket strange problem

Everything works just fine except that once in a few restarts to my application I get an exception that IP address is not defined. My IP is defined and has no problems that I can see ? Try assigning IP, Port and Proto each time before calling connect. -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be Embarcadero

Re: [twsocket] TWSocket strange problem

I may have a problem in my code but this is a bit strange ? Have you tested with one of the supplied samples ? -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be Embarcadero MVP http://www.overbyte.be http://francois-piette.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list

Re: [twsocket] [Off Topic] Vote for Delphi on Code2013

Well, I said how to vote: You can cast your vote by sending a tweet So it's effectively a survey of Twitter followers about their favourite language, excluding the many people who don't use Twitter g Indeed. As a mitigating factor, most people by today have a twitter account. If they

[twsocket] [Off Topic] Vote for Delphi on Code2013

[Off Topic] You can vote for your favorite language (I hope it is Delphi but you can vote for anything). The website http://code2013.herokuapp.com/ has a nice statistic about language used in 2013. You can cast your vote by sending a tweet with hashtag #code2013 followed the name of your

Re: [twsocket] [Off Topic] Vote for Delphi on Code2013

You can vote for your favorite language (I hope it is Delphi but you can vote for anything). I do not understand this page. How do you vote? Just by a click on the image? Just from the name I'd prefer pogoscript, whatsoever that is ;) Well, I said how to vote: You can cast your vote by sending

Re: [twsocket] TWSocket Digest, Vol 550, Issue 2

This fix is not OK. FHSocket may be negative. It has to be cast to WParam. See other messages. -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be Embarcadero MVP http://www.overbyte.be http://francois-piette.blogspot.com -Message d'origine- De : TWSocket [mailto:twsocket-boun...@lists.elists.org] De la

Re: [twsocket] Errors while send, if client disconnected from socket

Sometimes client can disconnect on multithreaded server while send, after that I receive Range check error or Socket is not connected (#10057 in Send) How can I avoid these errors? I'm checking client state before send. Must I ignore both these errors? If yes, I can understand to ignore

Re: [twsocket] ICS, FireMonkey, Android, Windows and PostMessages

Window handles do not exist in OS X too but that can be emulated as I showed in ICSv8. The nature of PostMessage() and SendMessage() is that they take a target (call it handle). This is what I've done. The Windows handle is the instance of TMessagingSystem. I made PostMessage a method of the

Re: [twsocket] ICS, FireMonkey, Android, Windows and PostMessages

of that, it was an education for me, one that is far from over, even at my advanced age. Thank you ever so much! Walter On 12/15/2013 11:29 AM, François Piette wrote: While busy at porting ICS to Android, I had the need of replacing Windows custom messages by something else which is portable

Re: [twsocket] How can I get a buffer of TnScript

How can I get a buffer of TnScript some else way? TTnScript inherit from TEmulVT which has a buffer for what you see on screen. There is a Screen property which in turn has a Lines property. This is an array of records made of Txt : AnsiChar (Character displayed) and Att : Byte which is

Re: [twsocket] ICS :: Need help and example for HTTP Proxy Server

I have downloaded GpHttpProxy Demo project just now. You right - don't want to compile And I am little lost :) Can't help you without error messages. First of all, prefix all ICS units by OverbyteIcs (For example WSocket became OverbyteIcsWSocket). Then only minor changes should be

Re: [twsocket] Example of reverse mx lookup with TDNSQuery

Does anyone know of an example of how to use TDNSQuery to do a reverse MX lookup? TDNSQuery doesn't do revers MX lookup. I don't think it is possible anyway. -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be Embarcadero MVP http://www.overbyte.be http://francois-piette.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe or

Re: [twsocket] Post data lost

No clue if this a bug, I could simply provide sample code to reproduce the issue. Please do. Put your code somewhere on the web and publish a link to the mailing list (don't attach your code to a message for the list, it will be rejected). -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be Embarcadero MVP

Re: [twsocket] Attach to a target thread?

So my question: is there any way to attach a client connection to another thread immediately, from the main thread? Probably, but I've said I've not done it myself, no need. Others may have done so, This is not always possible, at least without modifying TIcsWndControl. The problem is

Re: [twsocket] Delphi TServerSocket vs ICS equivalent

The data is enclosed with a standard tag format. In this case it is mos./mos, so I know when I have received a complete message So you have a delimiter which is /mos. It could be sed for TWSocket LineMode. Note that you cannot have embedded messages in messages. --

Re: [twsocket] Fetch image across LAN, WAN?

Do you think this can be done with ICS and Delphi 4? Delphi 4 or XE4 ? Of course no problem with XE4. If you still have an ICS version working with D4, then you can do it. Downloading an image is not different than downloading any file or any HTML page. One you get the JPG (or GIG or PNG or

[twsocket] Dynamic web page using Delphi, ICS and DWScript

Hello, I updated the OverbyteIcsWebAppServer demo with code to handle dynamic web page creation using DWScript. See my blog at: http://francois-piette.blogspot.be/2013/06/dynamic-web-page-using-delphi-ics -and.html The code is uploaded to the SVN repository for ICS V8, but it has not