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Internet Direct, also known as "Indy", is a free software / open source socket library written in Object Pascal, an object-oriented version of Pascal. It includes clients, servers, TCP, UDP, and raw sockets, as well as over 100 higher level protocols implementations such as SMTP, POP3, NNTP, and HTTP. [1] Indy includes support for OpenSSL [2] and Zlib in the protocol implementations. [3] Indy 10 was ported to Free Pascal, and runs on Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, and Darwin. [4]

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Internet Direct is available for Borland Delphi, C++ Builder, and Kylix. [1] The software is dual-licensed under the "Indy Modified BSD License" and the "Indy MPL License". [5] As of early 2008, there is a new project called Indy#, which intends to write a C# version from the ground up. [6]

History

Indy was initially named "Winshoes" and was written by Chad Z. Hower (a.k.a. Kudzu [7] ) in 1993 in Visual Basic. [8] In 1995, he ported it to Borland Delphi and deprecated the Visual Basic version. In 1997, he made it available under an open-source license. [5] In 2000, Winshoes was renamed to Internet Direct (Indy for short) and became cross-platform. In 2001, Borland began including it as a part of Borland Delphi, C++ Builder, and Kylix. In 2003, Indy was ported to Delphi for .NET. The following year, Indy was made available to the Microsoft .NET community. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Indy Project - What is Indy. Sockets?" . Retrieved 2006-08-23.
  2. ↑ "Indy Knowledge Base" . Retrieved 2006-08-23.
  3. ↑ Internet Direct (Indy) An Open Source suite of Internet components (ZIP Compressed PDF). Chad Z. Hower (aka Kudzu) and the Indy Pit Crew. 2006-02-11. p. 365. Retrieved 2006-02-11.
  4. ↑ "Indy.Sockets - Indy 10 Lazarus/Free Pascal Port" . Retrieved 2006-08-23.
  5. 1 2 "Indy Project - License". Indy Project. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
  6. ↑ "Indy.Sockets" . Retrieved 2006-08-24.
  7. ↑ Hower, Chad Z. "Kudzu World".
  8. 1 2 "Indy Project - About". Indy Project. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
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