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Summary

IP Wizard Toolpack by Seekford Solutions

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Add Internet functionality to your applications. Internet Protocol Wizard Toolpack SSL gives you every Internet related control that Seekford Solutions make with a significant package saving. You get support for a lot of protocols and functionality. The included protocols are HTTP, NNTP, FTP, SMTP (email), POP3, PING, TRACEROUTE, SNTP (time), SSL TCP, DNS MX, MIME, Finger, WHOIS, and the following encodings: Base64, Quoted-Printable, yEnc, UUEncode, URL, MD5, SHA-1, and string binary to hex. A great value with a lot of power.

Seekford Solutions, Inc.'s (IP Wizard Toolpack) Internet Protocol Wizard Toolpack gives you every Internet related control that we make with a significant package savings. You get the ability to own every control for the price of just a few.

Make your project utilize all of the capabilities that the Internet has to offer with easy to use ActiveX controls that are straight-forward and have extensive features.

You get all of the following controls:

POP3 Wizard SSL allows you to receive mail from any POP3 server. It even has a special Message object which allows you to interpret the message, read the headers, and even save attached files. Also lets you easily get the HTML or Plaintext body of a message. You are also able to communicate using SSL so that hackers can't read your messages

SMTP Wizard SSL gives you control over sending messages. With the special SMTPMessage object, you can modify headers, set the message body, and even attach files. It now has the easy capability of sending HTML messages as well as the traditional plain-text messages. You are also able to communicate using SSL so that hackers can't read your messages.

Encoder Wizard allows you to encode and decode text from and to Base64, Quoted-Printable, UUEncode, yEnc, URL, SHA-1, MD-5, and Binary 2 Hex. You can use this to encode your own custom messages and have it in a proper format for transmission through email gateways. Except for the digest algorithms(which are one-way), Encoder wizard can also decode all the data back to its original form.

MIME Wizard allows you to create and parse MIME messages with an easy to use object model. Using the standards for MultiPart Internet Messages you can build simple or complex messages.

HTTP Wizard SSL provides simple and easy downloading of Web pages and files, uploading of files to servers, posting Form data, authentication, redirection, cookies and much more

FTP Wizard lets you upload and download files using the file transfer protocol. You also are able to get directory entries in an easy to use object oriented format. All basic commands are supported. You can rename, create directories, delete files and directories

NNTP Wizard allows you easily use every command that is supported by the Network News Transport Protocol. Post articles, download articles, groups, and headers. With support for all the commands you can also use the XHDR commands and NEWNEWS, etc. Comes with an Article object which grabs attachments for you

Ping Wizard lets you ping servers to get the Return Trip Time(RTT) as well as the Time to Live(TTL). Great for detecting network uptime and presence. Also works for checking to see if the local computer has an internet connection that is active

TraceRoute Wizard allows you to evaluate the time it takes for a packet to reach its intended host. Detect network congestion, overloaded or inefficient routers, and more

Finger Wizard lets you query Finger servers to find information about their users. Some servers use the Finger query for earthquake and geological data retrieval. Most servers use the protocol to release data about email accounts and user accounts on the server

WHOIS Wizard lets you pull up the WHOIS information record on domain names. Discover who owns a domain name and their contact information

SNTP Wizard allows your program to synchronize with Atomic clocks and radio frequency clocks across the internet for highly precise timestamping. You can also set the local computers clock to the correct time with a simple command. SNTP Wizard automatically provides conversions from Universal Coordinated Time(UTC) to the local computers timezone. That way you can use either value for your timestamp

DNS MX Wizard lets you access the Mail Exchange(MX) Resource Records(RR) from a DNS server

SSL Socket Wizard allows you to connect to ports on a server(computer or device) using TCP and communicate using plain-text(normal) or use SSL(secure channel) for sending and receiving data

This toolpack not only gives you all you need for Internet functionality, it also provides an economical way of getting your project going quickly with a high ROI. This toolpack saves months and months of man hours not to mention the debugging nightmares with non compliant servers that we have already encountered and handled.

Seekford Solutions offer 100% completely free email technical support for all of our products. You can even take advantage of this during your evaluation period. We entertain all questions, and will even help with small examples for your particular application.

Please take advantage of our non-crippled* evaluation copies to assess for yourself the why we think Seekford Solutions has the greatest technology.

This control works with any ActiveX container and even works in ActiveX scriptable languages such as VBScript. We have example programs written in Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, Visual C++, VBScript and Active Server Pages.

SMTP Wizard SSL

SMTP wizard SSL allows you to be able to access an SMTP server with minimal knowledge of how SMTP works and very little code. There are many features for simplifying tasks of accessing and utilizing an SMTP server. The control talks directly with the SMTP servers and completely bypasses MAPI and any of the problems that MAPI has.(i.e. Security dialogs and other nuisances)

SMTP Wizard SSL allows you to:

Be used in a scriptable language such as VBScript

Use Secure Password Authentication for logins

Utilize the features of ESMTP

Get the server abilities

Send very large messages

Verify that each recipient is valid, otherwise choose whether to proceed

Use every command that SMTP protocol supports.

Comes with SMTPMessage object which makes creating an RFC 822 compliant message incredibly easy

Custom headers and values

Multiple TO , CC and BCC recipients

Add file attachments

Communicate over secure channels when talking to a SSL enabled server

Send HTML and regular plain-text messages

Send the messages Asynchronously freeing your application to do other work

Plus more

Simple Mail Transport Protocol Wizard lets you send mail with ease. The SMTPMessage object gives you quick access to building a message, adding files to it, and sending it through a mail server.

Your project can easily send out email notifications, error reports, customer responses, and a whole lot more.

This control works with any ActiveX container and even works in ActiveX scriptable languages such as VBScript.

POP3 Wizard SSL

POP3 wizard SSL allows you to be able to access a POP3 server with minimal knowledge of how POP3 works and very little code. There are many features for simplifying tasks of accessing an POP3 server.

POP3 Wizard SSL allows you to:

Be used in a scriptable language such as VBScript

Get Drop Listings

Find out how many messages are there without downloading anything

Use Secure Password Authentication for logins

Get Scan listings

Get Full messages or just the headers

Get the Unique Identifiers for messages

Delete messages

Use every command that POP3 protocol supports.

Secure Socket Layer(SSL) Channel Encryption Supported

Plus added features for parsing headers of messages.

HTML, PlainText Body parsing

Save attachments and messages to disk

The Post Office Protocol v3 Wizard allows for a great deal of control over your messages. You can download messages and quickly access the key features of them you want, like grabbing those file attachments.

This component makes it easy for you write a program that incorporates watching a mail drop for specific information, receive sent files and data, and much more.

This control works with any ActiveX container and even works in ActiveX scriptable languages such as VBScript.

MIME Wizard

MIME Wizard gives you the power of both creating and parsing Multipart Internet Messages. The object model breaks down the format of the message into easy to manage parts. You can easily and quickly make a MIME compliant message that has attachments, or the text/html alternative view. It easy to create whatever message you need as well as read them back. You can read in other MIME message and quickly and easily extract the data you want since it gets broken down into its parts automatically.

This control has many features and a good design which facilitates in the implementation of your needs with little effort. It pays for itself almost immediately saving you the pain and hassle of having to write a great deal of code to handle the intricacies of the format standard.

Encoder Wizard

Encoder Wizard is a collection of two ActiveX (ocx) controls, Encoder Wizard and Decoder Wizard. These two controls allow you to fully support the Base64, Quoted-Printable, UUEncode, yEnc, MD5, URL, SHA-1, and Binary 2 Hex encoding methods. You can Encode and Decode data quickly and intelligently.

Base 64 is the Encoding Method usually used for Binary files in MIME messages. It is also used to encode data for special characters across telnet connection to certain servers

Quoted-Printable is used to encode text for transmission accross certain mail servers. It is also commonly used in MIME messages

UUEncode is the data encoding mechanism used by Unix systems for encapsulating binary data so that it can transported safely across network connections

yEnc is a recently created encoding method that is now used a lot in newsgroups since it is significantly more efficient for data storage than the UUEncode format. yEnc takes advantage of being able to use 8 bit encoding as opposed to the more restricted form of 7bit encoding used by UUEncode

MD5 is a message digest hash algorithm that is used for validation and verification of message integrity. It creates a highly unique 16 byte ( 128 bit ) digest from a set of data that is almost impossible to recreate without the same exact input data

URL encoding is used by Web servers to contain all types of data for transmission through the http protocol. It is generally used to encode url access specifiers and form post data values

SHA-1 is another highly secure message digest algorithm used by the United States Government. It is now a publicly open algorithm which uses a 160 bit or 20 byte digest. The hash from any set of data less than 2^64 bytes in length provides a unique hash that is only creatable by the unique byte order.

Binary 2 Hex is a conversion process that converts binary data to a hex string representation of that input data. This allows for conversion from and to the most common transmission of digest strings and other such data. It is a also an effective way of transmitting binary data to a string storage mechanism in a safe way since it only uses the characters 0-9 and a-f.

Encoder Wizard and Decoder Wizard can manipulate these formats easily. Decoder Wizard also recognizes when a UUEncoded data file is read from a Unix encoder and properly reads the data. It also has the ability to parse the full content of multi-part yEnc encoded messages.

HTTP Wizard SSL

Seekford Solutions, Inc.'s HTTP Wizard SSL .0 provides programmers an easy to use and high level access of HTTP servers. The control works in any ActiveX container and has no dependencies other than itself. With the new Asynchronous operation and the threaded synchronous version, your application will never hang. This new version provides basic support for communicating via SSL so your data transmissions can be secure and safe.

The control is very programmer friendly and even has time saving features like auto-connect and disconnect for methods and simple to use method calls like the EasyFileUpload method. Everything is spelled out and explained in the languageof the controls design but it also comes with a linked help file for more detailed explanations.

One of the great features of the control is the ability to POST forms to Web sites. This allows you to register users on your custom scripted page, or upload files to your site or even send data so your website can update a database. The possibilities are endless and HTTP Wizard SSL .0 makes it easy and possible.

HTTP Wizard SSL .0 allows you to:

Upload file(s) and variable(s) data to a Web server by POSTing it

Download files and pages from a web server

Use all of the RFC spec commands. i.e. GET, POST, HEAD, TRACE, DELETE, PUT

Use a custom command on the server that is not already implemented in HTTP Wizard. i.e something new, like TIME

Get just the headers of a page to see if it has changed, saves download if not

Great for transmitting data to a database on a web server, by posting the data

Use proxy servers with basic authentication

Use basic authentication for web resources

Connect using the Secure Socket Layer to SSL enabled servers

Call methods Asynchronously or synchronously without hangs

NEW - Automatic Server Redirection Following

NEW - Automatic Server State Management i.e Sessions, Server Cookies

The object structure is very well defined and easy to use.

HTTP, or Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, is used for the communication between a client and a server that allows the client to access resources on the server with a defined behavior for the communication. There are different commands that can be issued to the server for processing, and each command elicits a different behavior.

With one line of code, you can upload a file to any URI. It is also easy using the FormBuilder object to create a Form's information and POST it to the server for processing.

HTTP Wizard SSL makes this process easy and allows a developer to take full control of the power of HTTP.

FTP Wizard

FTP wizard allows you to be able to access an FTP server with minimal knowledge of how FTP works and very little code. There are many features for simplifying tasks of accessing an FTP server.

FTP Wizard allows you to:

Create Directories

Remove files and Directories

Upload Files

Download Files

Rename Files

Get all directory Entries - With all information about them

All other commands needed to carry out normal usage of an FTP server. i.e change directory, get directory

Asynchronous operation

No User Interaction required

File Transfer Protocol servers exist on the Internet for the sole purpose of storing information. They are used to keep information accessible from a network, like the Internet, so that users can retrieve files. Users, with the proper permissions, can also save their files to them.

FTP Wizard makes this process easy and allows a developer to take full control of the power of FTP.

NNTP Wizard

NNTP Wizard is an ActiveX control that gives a programmer the ability to harness all that the Network News Transfer Protocol has to offer. With every standard command and almost all of the extended commands implemented in an easy to use and efficient manner, you can make your application as feature rich in a relatively small amount of time.

A lot of time and work has been put into making this as efficient as possible. It has asynchronous capabilities for all commands as well as transfer optimizations for utilizing the maximum bandwidth available for incredible speed. All commands are executed via a separate thread so your User Interface will not be disrupted or freeze when using the synchronous mode.

The main features of NNTP Wizard are:

Use all of the Standard NNTP RFC commands

Use all non-deprecated extended NNTP RFC commands

Asynchronous capability

Full support for Scriptable Languages

Completely Object Oriented for command response encapsulation This makes it easy to understand each commands data

Special Article object that allows for adding and retrieving Attachments from Downloaded or Created Articles

Can be used to create or view Articles Support for multiple attachments

Automatically encodes/decodes the UUEncoded attachment data

Full Help System with complete index and context sensitive help with using the control

Detailed Error descriptions and codes

Easy to use

NNTP Wizard is a great choice for use in your project no matter what development environment you use (As long as it supports ActiveX).

Ping Wizard

Ping Wizard lets you conduct tests on the speed of your network. Ping Wizard sends a special packet to a server, and times how long it takes to get a reply. This time is the total latency of the packets that you send when communicating with this server.

It is a good tool to figure out why a network request is running slow, and is also very good to see if a computer is connected to the network properly

Ping(Packet Internet Groper) Wizard adds this power to your program letting you conduct tests, watch server latency and much more.

This control works with any ActiveX container and even works in ActiveX scriptable languages such as VBScript.

TraceRoute Wizard

Trace Route Wizard allows a programmer to trace the route a packet must take to get to any specified address(IP or FQDN). It is very intuitive and straight forward. Fully ActiveX compliant, Trace Route Wizard also is setup to be used excellently in ASP scripted pages, or any ActiveX compliant scriptable languages because it has methods that utilize events and special methods that let you step through the process.

You also get an immense amount of information regarding each Hop and also supports multiple attempts per hop. All of the functionality of the program that comes with Windows tracert.exe plus much more.

You get information like:

Time To Live of Returned Packets

Packet Data Size of returned packets

Round Trip Time of hop attempts

Average, Minimum, and Maximum Round Trip Times of entire Hops

plus much more

You can also set how everything happens, like:

Amount of time to wait per Hop attempt

How many attempts per Hop

Maximum Hops to check

Amount of data to send in trace packets

plus much more

A lot of computer users know about the TraceRt program that comes with windows and Unix. It is a handy tool for figuring out where the network latency is coming from by show the exact path a packet has to take from the local machine to the target server. By looking at each step in the path, you can see where the packet is getting tied up and which routers are overloaded or antiquated.

TraceRoute Wizard gives you all of this power and lets you put it right into your application. It is great for network monitoring applications, network diagnostics, latency checkups, and many more projects.

Finger Wizard

Finger Wizard makes it easy to utilize the Finger service of networked servers. You can access all the information that the servers provide with easy to use methods.

The Finger service runs on many types of servers. The main use is to provide data about the users of the particular system. Some return who is online at the moment, some return information about the mail boxes hosted on that server, and even others return scientific data.

The Finger Protocol used is used for a few different purposes. The primary is to interrogate a server about its users. By querying with the user name, or even possibly the actual name of a user you can find out if they are online on the server, if they mail, their real name , their mail box name, their personal directory and more. It all depends on the administrator of the finger server for how much information you will actually get. There are also different implementations of the use for instance an institute offers earthquake information by querying it with coordinates and other information.

WHOIS Wizard

WHOIS Wizard makes it easy to look up the domain registrant records of a particular domain. You can also do close wildcard searches to see what domains have been registered and who owns them.

You can add quick domain name checking capabilities to your program, allowing your users to see the owners of domain names and also see if they are not currently registered. There are many applications for this component.

When a WHOIS query is conducted it speaks with a WHOIS server and asks it to return all the information it has available about a particular domain. The Domain records are then returned so you can see the Administrative, technical, Zone and other contacts. You also find out the DNS servers used for the website and contact information about the owner. Such as the name, address, phone number and sometimes email address of the registrant.

SNTP Wizard

SNTP Wizard gives the power to retrieve the exact time from SNTP time servers across the Internet. These times are accurate because they are accessed from Atomic and radio frequency clocks.

Some Useful features:

Easy to get time information

Great for timestamps for Local Time and UTC

Can automatically set the client machines clock to the retrieved time

Simple Network Time Protocol Wizard is great for getting time stamps, synchronizing computer clocks and much more.

Your mult-tier applications can really benefit from being able to make sure they are all running on the same schedule by synchronizing each computers clock precisely together. It is also great for medical time stamping, for medical filing software and many other applications.

DNS MX Wizard

DNS MX Wizard is an ActiveX control that lets you query a Domain Name System(DNS) server for Mail Exchange(MX) Resource Records(RR). MX RR's contain the name of the server responsible for handling mail for a domain. Multiple resource records can exist for any server and each record has an associated preference level with it which lets you determine which server to try and communicate with first.

This control has many uses, here are some:

You can write your own SMTP Server and use this to lookup where to deliver the mail

Verify email addresses by looking up the domains MX record and verifying the email address with the mail server for the domain

Verifying and watching to make sure your companies MX records are correct and haven't been "hacked"

The control gives you complete control over the data by letting you access all the returned MX server, their preference level and automatically giving you the preferred server. The control automatically detects the local machines DNS server and also allows you to set your own DNS server to use for the lookup.

This control works with any ActiveX container. It even works in ActiveX scriptable languages such as VBScript, with a special wrapper control.

SSL Socket Wizard

Networks and the Internet are becoming not only a nice thing to have but are now a necessity and your application need to be able to communicate over them. SSL Socket Wizard allows you to easily communicate to a remote server using the TCP protocol and also adds the ability to use Secure Socket Layer protection to the channel. You can communicate using SSL or normal clear-text.

The control is designed in such a way that it really doesn't take a lot of knowledge about networks or data communications to implement it. The methods are as simple as connect, getdata and senddata. With the inclusion of data arrival events and other status notifications you can easily add network communication in an event driven manner making it highly suitable for almost any application.

SSL Socket Wizard now supports SOCKSv4 and SOCKSv5, also known as SOCKS4 and SOCKS5, FireWall Proxies.

Some ideas are:

communication channels to bank payment processors that stay connected for very long periods of time

custom implemented protocols for communication between applications

Implementing communication to another companies applications using proprietary protocols

Network device communication

Any data connection to web servers, ftp server, smtp or any other server using the TCP protocol for communication

The implementation uses are endless and the ROI is significant since the control is Royalty Free and may used in any number of projects as long as each developer has a license.

This control works with any ActiveX container and even works in ActiveX scriptable languages such as VBScript

Seekford Solutions Platinum Subscription offers you the ability to use every ActiveX and .NET product Seekford Solutions has available. You get free upgrades, revisions, and any new products released while you have an active subscription. You also get free prioritized technical support. Each subscription lasts one year, renewable.

Seekford Solutions component products are being retired on June 30th, 2011 and will not be available for purchase after that date. If you wish to buy a license, please do so before June 30th, 2011.

Add Internet functionality to your applications.

Evals & Downloads: Read the IP Wizard Toolpack help files

Operating System for Deployment: Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Component

Component Type: ActiveX OCX, ActiveX DLL

Built Using: MFC V4.2 / V6.0

General: Internet Enhanced, Includes Digital Signature, Supports Apartment Model Threading

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, Microsoft Visual Studio 97, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET, Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0, Microsoft Visual C# .NET, Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0, Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad, Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Office 97, Microsoft Outlook 2002, Microsoft Outlook 2000, Microsoft Internet Information Server 5.0, Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0, Microsoft FrontPage, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, C++Builder 6, Delphi 7.0, Delphi 6.0, .NET Framework 1.0

Product Class: Business Components

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