PowerTCP Web Tool

Use the HTTP Control to communicate with Web Servers world-wide using HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and HTTPS (HTTP with Secure Socket Layer encryption).

Benefits & Features

• Extreme ease of use – fetch a complete web page with only one method call.
• Provides easy control of security aspects of HTTP/S.
• Full proxy server support including selective bypass.
• Persistent internal cache support for quick second-time page fetches.
• Control supports URL cracking to identify separate parts: scheme, remote host, data path etc.
• All the benefits listed in the PowerTCP Overview.

Sample Projects

• PageFetch: Demonstrates a simple HTTP application that fetches a web page.
• Post: Demonstrates a simple HTTP POST application.
• LinkSpider: Demonstrates a web link spider application.

Potential Uses/Applications

• Check web server availability and performance.
• Automate filling out of web forms.
• Extract web page content, parse for information, and insert into an application or database.
• Post files to any Web Server using Post or Put (HTTP or HTTPS).
• Get files from any Web Server using Get (HTTP or HTTPS).
• Pull down web documents on a schedule.
• Generate a site tree.
• Real-time stock and futures trading system.

Compatibilities

• Development Environments: Visual Studio, Office 97 (VBA), C++Builder, Delphi, PowerBuilder and other environments that supports ActiveX (ATL) controls.
• Operating Systems: Windows 95/98, NT4, NT 2000.
• Requires Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher.