SocketTools Scripting Edition

The SocketTools Scripting Edition includes COM components (DLLs) which can be used in a wide variety of scripting languages such as VBScript, JScript and PHP. In addition, the Scripting Edition components can also be used with any language that supports the use of COM objects, such as Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Basic.NET, Visual C++ and Visual C#. The Scripting Edition is ideal for the developer who requires the flexibility, ease of use and rapid development features of a component designed specifically for client and server-side scripting. The SocketTools Scripting Edition consists of fourteen core networking components which can be used to develop applications that meet a wide range of needs. SocketTools covers it all, including uploading and downloading files, remote file management, sending and retrieving email, remote command execution and much more.

The SocketTools Secure Scripting Edition also includes support for the industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), Transport Security Layer (TLS) and Secure Shell (SSH) protocols which are used to ensure that data exchanged between the local system and a remote host is secure and encrypted. The Secure Editions implement the major secure protocols such as HTTPS, FTPS, SFTP, SMTPS, POP3S, IMAPS and more. Your data is protected by industrial strength 128-bit encryption, with full support for client certificates. And there's no need for you to understand the details of certificate management, data encryption or how the security protocols work. All it takes is a few lines of code to enable the security features, and SocketTools handles the rest!

The following are just some of the features in the SocketTools 6.0 Scripting Edition:

  • Standard ATL based components compatible with any COM compliant development tool
  • Low resource utilization and no external dependencies on third-party libraries
  • A comprehensive product with 18 components for all of the major protocols
  • Fully compatible with the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 operating systems
  • Fully compatible with Visual Studio .NET 2003, Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008
  • Includes both high level and lower level interfaces for maximum flexibility
  • Thread-safe implementation with full support for multithreaded applications
  • Support for proxy servers, including secure proxies, using FTP and HTTP
  • An extensive Developer's Guide and online Technical Reference
  • A professional technical support staff and extensive online support resources
  • No runtime licensing fees or additional royalties
  • A trusted company with over 10 years experience developing Internet components

In addition, the SocketTools Secure Scripting Edition offers:

  • Support for the standard SSL and TLS security protocols with 128-bit encryption
  • Support for the SSH protocol and integrated support for SFTP as part of the FTP object
  • Enhanced features specific to the Vista platform, such as support for AES encryption
  • Enable security features with just a few lines of code
  • Support for both implicit and explicit SSL and TLS connections
  • Support for client certificates when required by the remote host
  • Support for using certificate files as well as using the Windows certificate store
  • No dependencies on third party SSL libraries

Developer's Guide
To help you get started using SocketTools, the Developer's Guide covers a variety of programming topics related to SocketTools, as well an overview of each of the components included in the product. Even if you have experience working with previous versions of SocketTools, we recommend that you review the Developer's Guide. It provides information on how to use the components with the most popular scripting languages as well as languages such as Visual Basic.NET, Visual C#.NET and Visual C++.

Technical Reference
The Technical Reference provides extensive documentation on all of the functions in each of the SocketTools components. It's here that you'll find information on the various properties, methods and events provided by the component. If it is your first time using a particular component, we recommend that you first read the overview of that component in the Developer's Guide.


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