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

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Mayayana,

> But I don't have docs for it.

Although I've found some odds-and-ends docs (cpp and h files mainly) the the 
only descriptive info I found is from MS itself: 
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb931215(v=vs.85).aspx  But as 
mostly with those, it doesn't help to understand what needs to be done.

I tackled that by writing an intercepting directdb dll , which allowed me to 
look at what exactly was called (by outlook express 6), and what the used 
arguments looked like.  Quite enlightning. :-)

> The objects, like idatabase, are only documented at MS to say "don't use 
> them".

I stopped caring about that when I discovered how usefull the "by ordinal 
only" (don't touch, you should not even *look* at them!) functions in quite 
a number of their DLLs are (thanks to Geoff Chapell for documenting quite a 
number of them).

> What I was hoping for would be .... a clear explanation of the file
> format so that I can parse it directly.

Althougth that is what my program currently does (parse it directly), I 
never tried to write any kind of documentation for it (which, mind you, 
would probably just link all the tidbits of found info together).

> If you think that might be useful you could send it, or anything else
> that looks promising, to [snip]

I'll send you the source code of the program I tested the decoding of the 
dbx (before using it in the stand-alone and ActiveX.   Less crud to look 
at ), as well as the program which I'm using to test directdb access with.

If you want (let me know) I can also send you all the gathered docs and zips 
I found (not really much), but I get the feeling you already found those 
yourself.

> It would be worthwhile just to thwart the clowns who are trying to get $60
> for a DBX extractor program.

:-)  During my searches I encountered several such programs, and had the 
same feeling.   But as you seem to be a professional software writer your 
time is worth quite a bit of money, and you will probably (and most likely 
already have) spend enough time on it to dwarf that price point.  :-p

I myself am just a hobby programmer, having no problem with spending (quite 
some) time while trying to recreate something that already exists (and could 
actually have costed (development time) and be worth its money) just to see 
if I can.   To me its either that, or reading a book.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


-- Origional message:
"Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> wrote in message 
news:orr0hj$1kaa$1@gioia.aioe.org...
> "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> wrote
>
> || And I also have some unfinished(!) work on that directdb.dll I 
> mentioned
> | in
> || my previous message.
> ||
> |
>   I just managed to build a directdb.tlb
> out of directdb.idl. so now I have the object
> model for use in VB. But I don't have docs
> for it. The objects, like idatabase, are only
> documented at MS to say "don't use them".
> I can't find the same docs in any SDK help files.

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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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