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Remy Lebeau (TeamB) wrote:
>
> I know for a fact that people have posted detailed information
> about which properties to set and how.  Where exactly are you
> searching, and what search criteria are you using?

Apart from a quick (and unproductive) check of the Indy Knowledge Base, I 
started off searching at Google Groups (the "all words" option) for "Indy 
SSL".  Then I tried a search for "TIdSSLIOHandlerSocket".  I also did 
searches on "Indy SSLOptions" and "Indy SSL demo".  There were thousands of 
results, so of course I couldn't check all of them.  I picked out perhaps a 
couple hundred message threads where I thought the short snippet that showed 
up on the google results page looked promising.  I have no doubt you're 
right that that detailed information is out there somewhere, but only a 
little of it was in any of the threads I picked to read.

Then I also went to the indy.encryption.ssl group on news.atozed.com.  (In 
retrospect, I suppose I should have started out there to begin with.)  I 
checked about a hundred messages there, picking whichever thread titles 
looked promising, but there are another 558 messages in that group which I 
haven't read yet.


> Did you try reading the tutorial on that same website?
>
>    IndySSL tutorial 1
>
> http://www.intelicom.si/www.nsf/docs/6ERHETDSTR?opendocument&cat=11&doc=6ERHETDSTR&lang=en

I saw that and skimmed over it, but got frustrated when the first half of 
the article was about how to use another utility.  It claimed that: "With 
IndySSL dll's we distribute also the precompiled openssl.exe utility that 
can be used to do the conversion."  In fact that's not true.  The download 
they have for the dll's contains /only/ the two dll's and a short readme 
file saying who developed them.  Anyway, when the article finally got to 
setting up the IdSSLIOHandlerSocket properties, it of course was mostly just 
setting them to the results of that missing utility.  I suppose tomorrow 
I'll try another search to find that utility.  If they no longer have it, 
maybe somebody else does.  If I can find it, then it'll be worth taking a 
closer look at that article.  (And perhaps worth looking at it when I'm not 
as tired.  I was already getting rather frustrated by the time I found this 
article, so I may have given it less attention than it deserves.)


> > What about properties or events?  Are any of them needed?
>
> That depends on the particular server you are trying to connect to.
> Some do require extra setup, and some don't.

OK.  We don't have direct control over the server, since it belongs to 
another department and they're outsourcing their side of the development, 
but it is being developed specifically for our client application, so they 
should be willing to talk to me about it.  I'll see if our product managers 
can get me in touch with whoever is developing that side.