SocketTools Secure Visual Edition

ActiveX components for Internet application development
SocketTools Secure Visual Edition is a collection of controls that supports secure data connections over the Internet or a local network.

It includes client interfaces for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) compliant versions of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS), File Transfer Protocol (FTPS), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTPS) and other popular application protocols PLUS all the standard Visual Edition components.

Almost all details of the standard SSL protocol are hidden within the controls, enabling developers to produce secure client applications with only small additional considerations beyond those needed for non-secure versions of those same applications.

All versions of Visual Basic from 5.0 and later are supported, and the ActiveX controls can be used with any 32-bit development tool that supports COM and the ActiveX control specification.

Of the twenty controls in the product, six provide client interfaces for secure versions of these major application protocols:

File Transfer Protocol (FTPS) * Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTPS) * Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS) * Post Office Protocol (POP3S) * Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTPS) * Telnet/TelnetS * Gopher * Image Viewer * MIME * Ping * RCMD * DNS * RAS * SocketWrench/Winsock * Terminal Emulator * Finger * Audio Player * Time * Whois All of the controls share many common attributes. The network controls support both synchronous (blocking) and asynchronous modes of operation, and also include the ability to log the Windows Sockets function calls for debugging purposes.

All the controls are thread-safe and can be easily used in multithreaded containers, for example Internet Explorer.

With the exception of the visually oriented controls (image viewer and terminal emulation controls), they can also be used as simple Automation objects, without requiring that they be placed on a form or inside another container.

Main features of SocketTools Secure Visual Edition:

Standard ATL based ActiveX controls compatible with most languages

Low resource utilization and no external dependencies on third-party libraries

A comprehensive product with 18 ActiveX controls

Fully compatible with Visual Studio .NET languages

Includes both high level and lower level interfaces for maximum flexibility

Support for both synchronous and asynchronous network connections

Thread-safe implementation with full support for multithreaded applications

Support for proxy servers, including secure proxies, using FTP and HTTP

Support for the standard SSL and TLS security protocols with 128-bit encryption

Enable advanced security features with just a few lines of code

Support for both implicit and explicit SSL and TLS connections

Create both secure client and server applications

Support for client certificates when required by the remote host

No dependencies on third party security libraries

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


Requirements of SocketTools Secure Visual Edition:

256 MB RAM

30 MB Disk


Limitations of SocketTools Secure Visual Edition:

30 days trial period

Free Download ( Evaluation | 7.8 MB )