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Hello, unfortunately I am not familiar with Delphi10. I am using the Delphi 10.3.3 Community Edition. I have opened the project-file D103Install.groupproj and found the the two entries OverbyteIcsD103Run.bpl and OverbyteIcsD103Design.bpl. Both I can compile resp. build ('erzeugen'). But how can I install the Design.bpl? I have read on other place, that I have to do a 'right-Click' an the selectet Item and can there select 'Install'. But on my version of DelphiX there is no action with a right-Click. And after compile of the projectfile the exist not any file with suffix .dpl on my harddisk, which I can add manually (Install packages ...) .... What can do, to to it right? What is wrong?

Hello Peter, thank You very much for this information. I have found now the appropriate .dpl to add it .... A right-Click at the position You show me in the picture produces a white screen. I suppose now, that there must be an error. But Delphi 10.3. is no longer supported. Best regards Matthias

Hello. I have downloaded OverbyteIcsV5.zip from Overbyte-Site. For many reasons I cannot migrate my program(s) to DELPHI6 or higher. Therefore I still have to use DELPHI5 :-( I have extracted from this zip-file only 'DELPHI' and 'VC32'. When opening HttpTst1.dpr I get the error 'Class TSslHttpCli not found'. After this I can compile the project and run the program. But the mainform 'HttpsTstForm' is not available in Desingmode (Editor). I have no idea what is wrong in the sourcecode. I think a following error is, that the program gets an exception, when trying writing the INI-File in procedure THttpsTstForm.FormClose. Can someone help me in this (not for me) obsolete sourcecode?

? I am very confused now. I think I should retire.

Thank You both for Your patience. Finally - if You are interested - I want explain why I did not migrate to DELPHI6 or higher. I have two main applications (programs). These are Database applications with my own database, realized with DELPHI TOOLBOX (You remember?) which contained a set of BTREE-functions and procedures. All this with ansi strings. The position and size of controls and edit-fields etc are calculated in my program in dependence of the charactersize of the selected Charset. When compiled with DELPHI6 nearly all positions of these controls didn't fit any more. That means the metric and some related metric-functions did not give the same result as in DELPHI5. And I encountered a further problem: DELPHI6 was the first version where the type STRING now was UNICODE by default. On the quick I found no easy way to switch the default type to ANSI-String. I was afraid for a lot of problems with my ANSI-String-BTREE-Database. For my simple 'straight-for' programming I saw (till today) no need to change to DELPHI6 under these circumstances. Perhaps for my third application (Viewing Webcam-Images) I will install DELPHI2006 a start a new run-up ....

Hi Agnus. THX. Still trying to understand SSL: Do I need a own certificate when I can accept the certificate of the server anyway? My program needs not to validate a certificate. But I understand: if the stream is encrypted I need to decrypt the stream ...🤔

Yes, Thank You. This would be the reason. I did not install the new version of ICS coponents. I tried, but I got the error that Unit 'HttpProt' already exists in an other package (due to the installation of an even elder version of ICS). At the moment I can not remove or replace my old componet of HttpCli, because many years ago I did some modifications in HttpProt.pas which I barely can remember und which will go lost. (Anyway I can recompile the old version). It need some more investigation or merge TSslHttpCli into my old version of HttpPror.pas. Thank You Matthias

Agnus, perhaps I will try this way. Thank You. Another general question: When a certificate expires, than a https-Get will not have success any more. What happens with distributed copies of my program. Or in general: what has a program to do, when installed on another PC? Does it run with my certificates or has the user generate his own certificate. You see: I have no knowledge of SSL ...

Thank You Francois. Sorry, my fault. Of course the sample program I compiled is HttpsTst.dpr. This sample I am able to compile and run in DELPHI5 (but without success to read a real https-URL). There is a problem in sourcecode which avoids showing the mainform in designmode. Do You think, that a program of 2007 using this ICS-https does not run today anymore, caused by changing the SSL-version? Matthias

sry forgot: Best regards Matthias