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Hi
I would like to suggest that support be added for Compression (files and strings), FTP, SFTP, FTPS, Encryption (files and strings), HTTP Get/Post. Craig Boyd (www.sweetpotatosoftware.com) created some very useful FLLs for compression , http and encryption for VFP and perhaps he would be willing to share his code if asked.
I currently use all of these things in my VFP applications to access such things as Amazon MWS and other 3rd party services.
Thanks,
Simon
HTTP Get/Post is fully supported please see the roadmap release notes.
What sort of encryption are you referring to as there are many different types?
FTP is possible at a later date.
SFTP requires SSL which would be more problematic cross platform.
On Windows you always use ActiveX (as you know).
Currently I use Hash with MD5 and HMAC with SHA256 for Amazon web services as described here: http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/s...ionUpdate.aspx
I also have a client that receives encrypted files using PGP so I am using Kleopatra/GnuPG to decrypt and encrypt this data so it can be imported into their VFP application.
For FTPS and SFTP I am using the http://lftp.yar.ru/desc.html because Windows as you know does not support secure ftp.
Have you looked at the MD5() and MD5FILE() functions in lianja?
Hi Simon,
as Craigs stuff often is in C/C++, I'd suggest you either look for corresponding libs in Python or PHP land -
should be plenty and better/easier to integrate in Lianja or wait for the C-API promised and give it a whirl then.
IMO there is enough work with vfp-compatibility before stretching developer resources
for tasks that Craig developed to correspond to the packages found in other languages.
regards
thomas
I am quite open to alternate solutions and quite agree that the dev. resources are quite busy. However, it does not hurt to ask and give the developer's of lianja a better understanding of the needs and thus help them decide on how to better design Lianja to enable future enhancements.
I started to look at hosting other tools even in vfp a bit earlier - directly hosting java was bad try,
but with COM you can add a lot from java and python standard functionality.
So the hinting at Python capabilities came easy on this one for me ;-)
You might look into Hammonds book on Python on Win32, a bit dated,
but gives you the key to COM servers offering python functionality to use in vfp as well -
most can be found online. O'Reilly with the Alligator/Crocodile whatever on the front ;-)