>Some comments on the Mac download:
> 1) All the links are broken between the help index and the Metacard
>reference substack.
> 2) There is no mention of "New features" anywhere
> 3) I see nothing about POP3/SMTP
>
>
David, for you and anyone else interested in the sockets support now
available in MC, I want to make a few points.
Support for http, smtp, ftp, pop and whatever other protocols are there is
NOT built in MC but the ability to open, listen, read, write and close a
socket IS.
That means that if anyone wants to write a client or server for any of the
protocols mentioned above she/he must read and understand the particular
RFC on that protocol first and then script step by step, by reading and
writing from/to an open socket the whole conversation that takes place
between the client and the server(in generic terms) in order to get or send
some data.
It will be very useful for most people once those libraries (Alan mentions
in his post) are available but I strongly recommend to anyone interested in
writing communications stacks to read the specific RFC to understand what's
going on. Here's a link
http://www.library.ucg.ie/Connected/Topics/index.htm to some RFC's.
I think at this time the only information on sockets syntax is in the ReadMe.
Regards, Andu
