PowerTCP Web for ActiveX: Easy to build advanced e-commerce and "bot" applications using HTTP and HTTP/S. These controls transfer files and mine the Web for information.

• HTTP
• HTTP/S

Potential Uses/Applications

• Check Web server availability and performance
• Automate submission of web forms from a client application or an ASP page
• 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
• Create a real-time stock and futures trading system
• Script dynamic URL queries when your ASP page is accessed
• On an ASP page, perform any HTTP activity (post, put, get) from the server side.

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
• WebAlive Compares the download performance of any 2 web pages. Useful for comparing the relative performance of mirrored Web Servers

Benefits & Features:

• Secure connections fully supported
• Easily fetch a complete web page with only one method call
• Fully supports blocking and non-blocking use
• Provides easy control of security aspects of HTTP/S
• Progress event is perfect for monitoring file transfers
• Custom cookies can be specified in the NEW GetEx method
• Put and Get methods will now spool files directly to/from disk
• 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

What’s included: The Web for ActiveX installation comes complete with the following:

• 2 Controls/Objects
• 9 Full Sample projects
• 5 ASP/ASP.NET Samples
• Debug Server for debugging and protocol testing
• Full MS Help 1.3 Documentation, including examples