Hello all.
This might be a bit Off Topic. However, since Francois mentioned D2007, I
hope you don't mind if I ask a more specific question regarding D2007.
You mentioned that it is "fast and reliable product". I was wondering if it
is any better regarding resource usage than D2006? Specificall
OT... Ok, I comin' clean! I am an evil procrastinator that needs to
register my ICS. I repent of my procrastination and (once again) commit to
send a post card out shortly... :) In my defense, I intend to join PA
(Procrastinators Anonymous) soon, tomorrow maybe?!?! Wait... I'm busy
tomorrow, so
Hello...
I am really stumped. I am attempting to write some testing applications
that will test the performance of some TCP/IP transport components that I
have written. My components use TWSocket components for the TCP/IP
interface and implement an encrypted, packetizing stream over TCP/IP.
The
Thanks Francois. I will try to see if I can figure out why my client tester
isn't processing messages and remove the ProcessMessages call. I agree,
this is obviously a symptom of the underlying problem.
However, TWSocketServer does not have what I need for these tests. I am not
wanting to know
Hello, again, Francois. Thanks for the additional input. Please forgive
me, I don't mean to be pesty, but I am confused by how I could be
reinventing the wheel?!?!
Obviously, the challenge with exchanging information via this email format
is that I am quite limited as to the scope of detail I ca
Thanks much. I will look through it.
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One additional n
Great document! Thanks! Great timing for me, too. I have been working the
last several days on trying to come up to speed on some Vista development
issues and that was a great help.
BTW, since you brought it up... ;) Can I ask a related question? If it is
OT, then perhaps you can direct me to
Can you supply references to the white papers you mentioned?
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Subject: Re: [twsocket] [OT] Writing Vista applications using Delphi
Hello F
using Delphi
From: "Hoby Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I have just got a new Vista Laptop (since you can't get anything else now)
> and am having the worst time trying to run BDS 2006 on it.
Why not run it in a virtual machine? Load up a VM with XP, install BDS 2006
and ther
Thanks, but no it doesn't. I also added rights to standard user account for
appropriate subdirectories (bin, ObjResp).
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Actually, installing is no problem. However, running is a problem. It
installs with no problem. It runs really unstable, crashes constantly and
sometimes even locks Vista up. Yikes!
I have heard of people using D7 with no problem. But even Borland says that
2006 is not certified to work wit
st...
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On Nov 13, 2007 3:23 PM, Hoby Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTE
FYI... I have upgraded to D2007 [finally]. Wow, it rocks! It is so fast,
even with large numbers of installed components, especially compared to
D2006. It seems to be as fast (and light?) as any Delphi I have ever used.
And, of course, it is pretty stable on Vista (2006 was not).
I greatly reco
Here is a link to the Online Installation notes for CodeGear RAD Studio
2007.
http://dn.codegear.com/article/36859
It says that .Net 2.0 is a pre-requisite.
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T
FYI... I ran into an issue with some test code I wrote a few months ago,
which related to the backlog setting, as well as the annoying issue with
Winsock running out of local ports. In my test, I was attempting to see how
many connections could be handled by a particular process over a period of
t
me that TWSocketServer is
taking too long to process incoming connections, as
many connections can be queued in the backlog while
its instantiating the client and dupping the socket.
Any thoughts on this?
-dZ.
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George...
Fundamentally, there are really only two ways to constrain inbound
connections regarding client identification. As I am sure you are aware,
keep in mind that neither TCP nor HTTP have any built in mechanisms for
facilitating client identification or rejecting connections based on any
ru
amics.html
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>From: Hoby Smith[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: 12/4/2007 12:05:56 PM
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>Cc :
>Subject : RE: Re: [twsocket] Webserver only with
local connections
>
>George...
Fundamentally, there are really
should
consider using a multi-threaded server. I cringe at that thought,
though, because I had so many problems getting TWSocketThrdServer to
run properly (due to my own lack of experience with this sort of
thing).
Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
dZ.
On Nov 28
I am sure this is not relevant, but just in case... You do realize that you
have the address spelled wrong below? I imagine it should be "smtp", not
"smpt"?
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l they
use--when they are new. Testing a binary protocol for them would also be
hard and this might hammer adoption globally. We have customers who study
and stress test for 29 days to understand how our caching and then decide to
buy at the end of the trial period!
Regards,
SZ
On 2/7/08, Hoby
Actually, IMNSHO (In My Not So Humble Opinion), binary protocols make much
smarter sense for binary machines. Even with the discrepancies of the
various flavors of binary formats (big vs little endian, etc), it is WAY
MORE EFFICIENT for binary machines to use binary protocols than to interpret
hum
Go David.
As a disclaimer, I admit that I am seriously biased, since I am probably the
only nerd on the planet that thinks Tim Berners Lee should be shot for
giving us the stupid web trash we have now, or perhaps it is the large
corporate interests to blame that determined for their own persona
Hello Dod...
Just to be clear about UDP behavior... This only worked because your
transmission pattern is based on a single packet exchange. That pattern
basically results in a virtual ack/nack process, which orders data by
default. UDP is not only unreliable, it is also inherently UNORDERED. So
> Starting next week, I start a tour in the USA to visit my customers...
Bummer! All too far from me. Actually, with the current price of gas, I
think across the street may be too far for me ... ;) Oh well, I would love
to have met you. Hope you have a great trip in the states!
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>> We just made our shareware IQ Web/FTP Server freeware!
Sweet! Thanks for letting us know... :)
Hoby
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Double Ditto! Thanks much... :)
>> From: "Francois Piette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Angus and I added UTF-8 support to the TFtpCli V7.
>
> I think Angus and Arno deserve a BIG thank from all of us for the huge
> work
> they've done supporting internationalisation in FTP component.
> Thanks guys !
>> DZ-Jay said...
>> coercing HTTP as the de facto standard protocol for all communications in
the Internet (as a lot of people are trying to make it) is stupid. There
are better transfer protocols out there.
Preach it! The Commodore 64 implemented better protocols... ;)
>> But this is a ran
>> Angus... Magenta Systems File Transfer Components are copyrighted
software but may
be used without cost.
Wow... Thanks!
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> Francois...
> Note that I understand that each one has difference preferences for his
development environment. I only explain how I work.
Thanks for the info on your package approach, Francois. Interesting
approach that I hadn't thought of. Two questions...
1. Would you use this approach acr
> @Angus said...
> I use a CONFIG suffix so the OS does not mess with my files.
Angus, can you please elaborate on that? I am not sure what you are
referring to. Sounds like a way to keep Vista from virtualizing files?
Thanks... Hoby
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> Angus said...
> and called them .config, but that was probably a red herring, sorry
Yeah, virtualization I get. Sorry, thought you were eluding to some super
secret Microsoft convention for telling Vista to ignore a file using
"config" in some magical way (name, reg key, etc). That would have
> Wilfried said...
> NTdll.DBGBreakPoint
> int 3
> ret
What OS and version? I can't remember exactly what version it was, but I
seem to recall that, quite some time ago, MS accidentally released a WinSock
(or some related DLL) build into production that still had a hard break in
it from o
A little OT... :)
> Brian said...
> do you know about madExcept
No, I didn't. Sweet! Thanks. :)
> Dod said...
> or EurekaLog (not free but more powerfull and reliable...
Wow, also sweet! Thanks! I got to get out more... :)
OT Question: Why is "EurekaLog" more "powerful" and "reliabl
DOD and Brian...
Thanks for the info... :) Hoby
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> Paul
> for those interested
> http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/itdojo/?p=262&tag=nl.e101
Sweet! Thanks... :)
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Hello, everyone...
Any input on this would be really appreciated.
I have a processing service that generates very simple SMTP notifications to
customers. Basically, these are system alerts about item due dates, etc. I
am using ICS TSyncSMTPCli v2.5 to send the messages with. I simply set the
> Francois said...
> 1- You should try to send the email, with the exact
> same program, from another computer (or even several
> computers) using another ISP
> 2- It is likely that - despite what they say - your
> IP or hostname is blacklisted.
Thanks for the input Francois. I have indeed test
> Arno said...
> If ICS shall not die very soon it has to be implemented anyway!
Wow! Scared of that statement! What do you mean by that? Is ICS in danger
of going away?
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Well, I finally resolved this issue. What a pain. In the end, the problem
was just character data that GoDaddy didn't like. It would have been nice
if their SMTP response had said something like, "Invalid character data
detected", instead of, "Rejected due to spam or virus content". But, maybe
>> SZ said...
>> I am quite sure 2 years ago in a roadmap pdf I read mentioning of 64-bit
>> support for BCB which should imply the same for the underlying Delphi. I
>> also recall asking it here and elsewhere and getting answers accordingly.
Yes, I distinctly remember it being on a roadmap quite
> Hi guys,
> I have seen the same pop up as well.
I have seen them for a while as well. I was quite surprised when I first
started seeing them. I use IE 8 and have like 3 popup blockers, but the
popups still come up.
Specifically, when I first load the site, popups try to load, but my
blocker
>> I have removed Motigo counter. Could you check if you still see the popup
>> (Strangely, I don't see it from here).
Hey, Francois... That seems to have done it for me... Thanks much! Hoby
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>> Francois... This allows me to earn a little bit of money...
I don't begrudge that at all! You (and the team) greatly deserve it. Your
ICS components have helped me tremendously and made my life much easier.
May you receive the prosperity of a million clicks! ... If that is worth
anything?...
>> Dave says...
>> Seems good old SSL is after all susceptable to some sort of Man In The
>> Middle atack.
Thanks for the link Dave. While this issue is in the process of being
addressed by the various providers, it is still one of the MANY reasons why
I abandoned the web stack a long time ago.
> Francois said:
> Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone from Denver, Colorado! :)
Hoby
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Hey...
Still maintain some stuff in D2007 with ICS. All new development in XE2.
Bug fixes are fine for older D2007, so don't care about new development with
D2007. However, DESPERATELY want to see a good socket solution for XE2. :)
Regards...
Hoby
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Hello.
Now that ICS supports both Windows and MAC OS X via FireMonkey (FM2), do you
have any plans to support iOS targets in the future as well? Or, are you
waiting for the future XE3/4/5.2 or whatever that will eventually include
the new native non-Win target compilers?
Thanks much. and y
> That was my plan last year, but then EMB crippled Delphi for their NextGen
compiler IMO. Looking at XE3's source code it becomes clear that there will
be no more Pointers, only one string type etc.. > in NextGen which seemed to
be required for their already announced mobil studio. So I for one ga
Hello.
I am building some test FireMonkey HD apps in Dephi/RAD Studio XE3 using ICS
that I am hoping will eventually build cross platform to Mac. There are two
apps, one is a server and the other a client, and they will exchange some
large amounts of data.
When they are running on the sa
> Yes. In Windows anyway and in Posix there's Window's messaging emulated
(as it's needed to not change ICS' source code too much). In Posix a thread
doesn't have to call GetMessage(),
> PeekMessage() that's the major difference.
> Unfortunately there's not yet a FMX threaded demo available, I'll
> Arno Garrels wrote:
> Actually it's simpler than it sounds, if you do not use your own message
loop but ICS' method MessageLoop, there's nothing to change for OSX. If you
use your own
> message loop a few IFDEF's are required, which isn't a big deal and
something I'll show in a new demo when I h
>Arno said
>It's done, I just checked in the new IcsThread demo (ICS-V8 Beta).
>It's located in folder PlatformDemos and in xSamples.groupproj.
>Will be also available in next ICS-V8 Beta Snapshot ZIP.
>http://wiki.overbyte.be/wiki/index.php/ICS_Download
Super Arno, thanks for taking the time to
er. Sorry if I missed it... :)
Thanks much!
Hoby Smith
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Hello. I am experiencing some very strange symptoms with some programs that
communicate using ICS.
Summary: The programs communicate fine (stable and consistent) when they are
run on DIFFERENT machines. However, when run on the SAME machine, the
communication between the programs is very un
Thanks for the info guys... :)
I assumed the issue must somehow be related to sequencing issues impacted by
the faster, local speeds, although exactly how I wasn't sure.
On further testing, I have discovered something of interest. After setting
the TWSocketServer MultiThreaded property to true
Hello. Well, ultimately, here is my solution.
This appears to work 99.9% of the time, maybe 100%. There was one failure,
but not sure if it was a related problem... ;)
Oddly, turning on the TWSocket MultiThreaded property tends to alleviate the
majority of symptoms. As I understand, the only m
Hello.
Just wanted to say thanks for the great input over the weekend!
I will consider the input. Francois, you are right, that particular part of
the initial handshaking exchange probably is a flaw in the implementation,
although it is a requirement in the protocol design. In the protoco
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