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Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon.

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"R.Wieser" <address@not.available> wrote

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| My own story in that regard is that I, years ago, spend a *lot* of time 
with
| decoding the .DBX files belonging to Outlook Express.

  I'd be interested in that if you have code or docs
you're willing to share. Just last week I wanted to find an
old email and went to an OE backup. I was surprised
to find that DBX extractors are very expensive. I
ended up with a search in Notepad. But if I had docs
I'd like to write a script to extract the emails into
a nice neat TXT file, or maybe an MSI database,
for better longterm backup.

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| And than of course the bad encounters:  Like a few months back me posting 
a
| simple question with all the relevant data and a code snippet in a C++
| forum, and than getting flack because I either should not even be thinking
| of doing something like that
|
   It's surprising how common that is. I get it all
the time, still, in the VB group. I've had arguments
over it. I think it's an issue of personality style.
Some people just really like rules and like nothing
more than to tell you their version of the rules.

   The IE wrapper API was actually one of
those arguments. The commercial MS partner
types have a lot of ideas about what's kosher
and what isn't. They don't think anyone should
be mucking around with winsock. I pointed out
that the IE wrapper functions are rather hokey
and allow cache/cookies. Someone argued that
those are system cookies and cache, not IE
cookies and cache. As such, they're normal and
are supposed to be connected to downloads.
It was an odd debate. This was a professional
programmer with a lot of experience, but who had
completely fallen for Microsoft's IE-is-the-Internet
scam. There was no way to even explain the idea
that cookies and cache belong to browsers, not OSs.

  I've never worked in any kind of tech office and
have been self-employed for most of my life, but
from what I've seen I get the sense that many
such operations -- like many office jobs in general
-- are paramilitary social structures with lots of
hierarchy. The kind of jobs where they're looking
for "dedicated team players" AKA lackeys who don't
mind working late for a set salary.

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Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 13:54 +0200
  Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-11 09:11 -0400
    Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 17:45 +0200
      Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 18:24 +0200
        Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-11 12:39 -0400
          Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 18:59 +0200
            Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-11 14:53 -0400
              Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 22:22 +0200
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-11 17:45 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-12 09:25 +0200
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-12 10:17 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-12 19:19 +0200
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-12 14:17 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-12 23:09 +0200
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-13 12:28 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-13 14:26 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-13 18:23 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-14 09:54 +0200

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