Re: [twsocket] HttpNoBasicAuth

2011-02-21 Thread Fastream Technologies
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Francois PIETTE wrote: > it's time for a rewrite from >>> scratch IMO. >>> >> And give it a different name, to bypass the "no brake early code" rule, or >> some of the annoyances will have to remain. Or start a new branch of renewed >> components. >> And, IMHO,

Re: [twsocket] TTwitter component

2011-02-21 Thread brian -
I'll post the code in google code along with that tiny client :) it's nothing major and my code is probably embarrassingly messy and primitive though, I'm sure it can be improved a lot ^^ Just a small clarification though, it's not a component, it's only a unit with an object I called TTwitterCli,

Re: [twsocket] TTwitter component

2011-02-21 Thread Marc Charbonneau
> Always been a bit skeptic about open source, how do you make money from that > :) Just ask RedHat or Canonical, for example. Better yet, ask François ! Like Jeff said, you're not open-sourcing your application, just the component. In return, you will get lots of debugging/testing and even impro

Re: [twsocket] TTwitter component

2011-02-21 Thread Matt Minnis
It doesn't need to be complete. If all one wants to do is tweet a message, then this would be enough, yes? I would be interested in using it for various status projects. Please post what you have. Thanks, Matt -Original Message- From: twsocket-boun...@elists.org [mailto:twsocket-boun...@

Re: [twsocket] TTwitter component

2011-02-21 Thread Jeff Hamblin
On 2/21/2011 2:24 PM, brian - wrote: Always been a bit skeptic about open source, > how do you make money from that :) What you would contribute to the ICS community as open source is just the base component -- not the application level implementation, which is where we all have the opportuni

[twsocket] THttpCli modification request, and gzip fix

2011-02-21 Thread brian -
Hi, I made a small modification to OverbyteIcsHttpProt and OverbyteIcsHttpCCodZLib, maybe it can be sorted for the next version. OverbyteIcsHttpProt : I made a small change to modify the headers before sending a request. I know there is an event for it, OnBeforeHeaderSend, however that's not qui

Re: [twsocket] TTwitter component

2011-02-21 Thread brian -
I'm pretty sure I mailed mine a few years ago, but might as well send another :) I just do see more and more people lately using Indy by default since it started coming packed with Delphi, and they either don't know about ICS or prefer the simplicity of Indy. I prefer ICS for the control it gives m

Re: [twsocket] TTwitter component

2011-02-21 Thread brian -
Always been a bit skeptic about open source, how do you make money from that :) On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Francois PIETTE wrote: > closed source for now since im using it for another large project, and the >> libraries are not complete, it's mostly just the steps to auth with >> twitter >>

Re: [twsocket] HttpNoBasicAuth

2011-02-21 Thread Francois PIETTE
it's time for a rewrite from scratch IMO. And give it a different name, to bypass the "no brake early code" rule, or some of the annoyances will have to remain. Or start a new branch of renewed components. And, IMHO, if technically possible, the THttpCli should mix HTTP and HTTPS, and handle in

Re: [twsocket] HttpNoBasicAuth

2011-02-21 Thread Arno Garrels
RTT wrote: >> it's time for a rewrite from >> scratch IMO. > And give it a different name, > to bypass the "no brake early code" rule, Agreed, however I won't be the guy who rewrite it. Better ask the guys who waste there time with ICS-marketing in social networks ;) IMO, at first the componen

Re: [twsocket] HttpNoBasicAuth

2011-02-21 Thread RTT
it's time for a rewrite from scratch IMO. And give it a different name, to bypass the "no brake early code" rule, or some of the annoyances will have to remain. Or start a new branch of renewed components. And, IMHO, if technically possible, the THttpCli should mix HTTP and HTTPS, and handle in

Re: [twsocket] HttpNoBasicAuth

2011-02-21 Thread Arno Garrels
Maurizio Lotauro wrote: > Sorry but I inadvertently delete the message of Arno. > IIRC the test is used to do not accept the basic authentication if > the server give it as the only authentication method acceppted. So > the component should continue as it s unable to authenticate to the > server.

Re: [twsocket] HttpCli / Async in thread problems --- Tryng to trace

2011-02-21 Thread Arno Garrels
Frans van Daalen wrote: >>> One was using webmarshal and the other ISA. But i'm not behind a >>> proxy and also still keep getting the "HTTP component is busy" >>> error message when using the async get. >> >> It still doesn't work probably so don't send it to your customer yet. >> I'm working o

[twsocket] HttpNoBasicAuth

2011-02-21 Thread Maurizio Lotauro
Sorry but I inadvertently delete the message of Arno. IIRC the test is used to do not accept the basic authentication if the server give it as the only authentication method acceppted. So the component should continue as it s unable to authenticate to the server. Bye, Maurizio. ---