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I've completed a new release of DDService Application Framework from the late Arno Garrels, it now supports Delphi 5, 7 and 2006 to XE8, 10 Seattle, 10.1 Berlin, 10.2 Tokyo and 10.3 Rio, as well as C++ Builder 2006 to XE5. Note that bugs fixed in these new releases had already been done in DDService. Also added new unit to control, install and remove Windows Service applications. The new and old versions may be downloaded from https://www.magsys.co.uk/delphi/ddservice.asp or from an SVN repository at: http://svn.magsys.co.uk:8443/svn/ddservice/ , use username = ics and password = ics for read access. Angus

Project reached somewhat usable state. Check it here. SChannel is Windows built-in implementation of TLS protocols. This allows supporting secure connections without any external library. Repo contains: unit with transport-agnostic helper functions for easy implementation of TLS communication by means of Windows SChannel. sample of transport-agnostic synchronous TLS handshake using callback functions for real communication API declarations borrowed from JEDI project ICS TWSocket descendant that performs TLS communication demo project for performing any textual (mainly HTTPS) requests via secure connection Note. I first started learning what TLS is a couple of weeks ago :) So units contain only a necessary minimum to interact with TLS server. Certs and other advanced stuff are in TODO. Thanks to author of TLS-Sample from http://www.coastrd.com/c-schannel-smtp and JEDI for WinAPI headers.

<humour ascerbic="true">This is due to the relationship between "theory" and "practice". In theory there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. </humour>

Hmm, this is possible though I tried to keep close to classic feature set. Exception is for Default() use, I like it so much I can't return to ugly FillChar. That's weird. Could you post log? I have no problems requesting GET / from google. Well, that's philosophic question. I hate tons of DLLs around my app; if OpenSLL could be compiled statically I'd prefer this option. But this requires too much C++ kung-fu to build them static and much more cross-compiler-fu to make Delphi eat these obj-s. I don't brave enough to start this battle. Anyway, f.ex., cURL uses SChannel by default. Thanks, I'll have a look. Thanks, I'll have a look. My functions could be bound with ANY socket lib - Indy, Synapse, etc, even inter-process pipes. Anyway my purpose was to make TLS-enabled my app that uses ICS.

For information, our Open Source https://github.com/synopse/mORMot/blob/master/SynCrtSock.pas supports SChannel as TLS layer since some time, for its raw socket layer. Of course, there is the additional WinInet/WinHTTP API for HTTP requests, which supports proper Proxy detection. Its SChannel implementation is more concise that your propose, and it works from Delphi 6 and up, and also for FPC. See https://github.com/synopse/mORMot/blob/5777f00d17fcbe0378522ceddceb0abece1dd0e3/SynWinSock.pas#L847

Ugh. How could I have forgotten that Delphi is actually two different languages.

I used the Migration Tool to move my syntax highlighting from 10.2.3 to 10.3.

Updating a single application even if complex is not a hard task, almost every other major IDE out there can do it. Only Delphi developers have to manually apply hotfixes by unzipping some archive and unblock the contained binaries...