11 Nov
2003
11 Nov
'03
11:14 p.m.
Mike Hearn mike@theoretic.com writes:
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:56:56 +0100, Sir Ferenc Wagner scribed thus:
I think he did but... SMTP is a horrible protocol. HTTP is sweet. :-)
They got complicated the same way when the machine is behind a firewall or proxy, I am afraid. It's a pity Windows does not have a standard mailer...
MAPI? For HTTP wininet is the standard service provider.
At first reading, it does not help much with posting forms... Anyway, it has the same problem as the Shell API: it is not supported on NT3. But do we really care?
On the other hand, I can imagine creating a Web form for file uploads, which could be used if everything else fails, and would also be easy to talk to through Winsock.
Feri.