- Internet Direct
Internet Direct, also known as "
Indy ", is afree software / open source socket library written inObject Pascal , an object-oriented version of Pascal. It includes clients, servers, TCP, UDP, and raw sockets, as well as over 100 higher level protocols implementations such as SMTP, POP3, NNTP, and HTTP.]Internet Direct is available for
Borland Delphi ,C++ Builder , and Kylix. The software is dual-licensed under the "Indy Modified BSD License" and the "Indy MPL License". cite web | url=http://www.indyproject.org/License/ | title=Indy Project - License | publisher=Indy Project | accessdate=2008-02-06 ] As of early 2008, there is a new project called Indy#, which intends to write a C# version from the ground up.Cite web|url=http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=IndySockets|title=Indy.Sockets|accessdate=2006-08-24]History
Indy was initially named "Winshoes" and was written by Chad Z. Hower (a.k.a Kudzucite web|url=http://www.KudzuWorld.com/|author=Hower, Chad Z.|title=Kudzu World] ) in 1993 in Visual Basic. cite web | url=http://www.indyproject.org/About.aspx | title=Indy Project - About | publisher=Indy Project | accessdate=2008-02-06 ] In 1995, he ported it to Borland Delphi and deprecated the Visual Basic version. In 1997, he made it available under an open-source license. In 2000, Winshoes was renamed to Internet Direct (Indy for short) and became cross-platform. In 2001, Borland began including it as a part of Borland Delphi, C++ Builder, and Kylix. In 2003, Indy was ported to Delphi for .NET. The following year, Indy was made available to the Microsoft .NET community.
References
External links
* [http://www.indyproject.org/ Indy Project home page]
* [http://www.indyproject.org/KB/ Indy Knowledge Base]
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