PowerTCP WebServer for ActiveX: Enables a complete Web Application to be written in any Development Environment that supports ActiveX controls.

• Roytaly-Free Distribution
• Intuitive On-line Help
• WebServer
• Service
• NT Service Controls
• SMTP
• Request Object
• Cookie Object
• Session Object

Potential Web Applications:

• Develop forum software that allows visitors to share information
• Create internet applications generating streaming audio/video media
• Add a web interface to ANY existing application that needs to be monitored/controlled
• Construct a Web portal or search engine to share any information with the rest of the world
• Start with any existing client/server functionality, and publish this information using any HTML template
• Provide a configuration and control interface to any hardware product
• Easily build Intranet applications for any internal function

Sample Projects:

• Web Forum Web Forum, written by Dart's Technical Support staff, provides a message forum that incorporates email, technical articles and search capabilities
• Web Server A secure Web Server that can be configured to listen on any port
• Cookie Test Shows how to check for client-side cookie support, and how to set/read cookies on the client
• Web FAQ Shows how a simple DAO database can be interactively edited and used to display dynamic content

IIS Comparison

• Application object is superceded with your global variables
• ObjectContext object is superceded with direct access to MTS
• Server object is superceded with direct access to the environment
• Request object is replaced with Dart's improved Request Object
• Certificate Object provides more help determining the attributes of the client certificate
• PUT and GET requests are routinely handled by a convenient DartStream Object
• Full file support for "multipart/form-data" sent as part of a POST request
• Cookies Object provides parsing support for cookie values and sub-values
• Form data is parsed and presented as a collection of HttpVariable Objects
• Response object is replaced with Dart's improved Response Object
• Response Object is pre-filled with the default response
• Convenient DartStream Object makes it easy to respond with strings or files
• Enumerated Status property simplifies use, and pre-fills StatusText with default values
• Header is exposed as a collections, and default values are automatically used unless overridden by your code
• Session object is replaced with Dart's improved Session Object
• SessionInit and SessionEnd events support initialization and termination
• Session cookies automatically manage sessions
• HttpVariables Object supports use of any Variant for state management

Benefits & Features:

• The features of IIS on a single web server control
• Re-use your existing client/server code
• A single application can be developed for both global and local use
• Content can be constructed right in memory
• Secure connections are fully supported
• Applications can run on multiple ports
• Easily install and run your web app as an NT Server
• Complete support for managing cookies
• Easily manage files and buffers w/ Dart Stream Object
• File uploads are AUTOMATICALLY supported, so you don't need add-ins like FileUp.
• Apply the robust power of Visual Basic or any other development environment to the development of your web applications
• Listen on ANY port/address combination, so you can host multiple web applications on a single server
• Default operation is with requested web pages automatically sent unless you over-ride the default operation in the Get Event.
• Events fire as each GET, HEAD, POST, PUT or general request arrives...you just add processing code to the events you want to respond to.
• Deploy FAST applications by building responses in memory (bypass slow disk access).
• Deployment is a snap: just compile and build a normal distribution, install the compiled web application on your server, and optionally install it as a service
• Debugging is easy. You can easily set breakpoints within your application and exercise it from your workstation using any browser
• All events fire on a single thread for maximum throughput for light-to-medium loading
• For high loading, MTS and multi-threaded classes can be used for constructing lengthy responses on dedicated threads, allowing the main thread to freely operate
• Responses can be constructed entirely in memory, providing the fastest possible response times (single-threaded operation is fasted for light-to-medium loading)
• Multiple applications can be written and installed on separate address/port pairs, so large applications can be easily partitioned to run as any number of individual tasks, all on dedicated threads.
• Provide a configuration and control interface to any hardware product