I'm writing a download manager in Delphi with some custom features like resumable downloads and downloading through proxies. I'm studing different component solutions: Indy and NetHTTP, both seem ...

Explain me please how to download a file from a server using SSL (https://). I have not found an appropriate answer in the Internet. Everybody says about TIdSSLIOHandlerSocket, but I have only TId...

I'm trying to access an update.txt file on my website, using a DelphiXE compiled program and the IdHTTP component. The code I'm using is as follows: procedure TFormAbout.SpeedButtonUpdateClick(Se...

I want to implement a simple http downloader using TIdHttp (Indy10). I found two kind of code examples from the internet. Unfortunately none of them satisfy me 100%. Here is the code and I want som...

Take following situation: procedure Test; var Response : String; begin Response := IdHttp.Post(MyUrL, AStream); DoSomethingWith(Response); end; Now the webserver returns me data in UTF-8. S...

When using TIdHttp like this: Memo1.Text := IdHTTP1.post(url,data); I can get response content to memo1 if it doesn't give http error. But when it gives http bad request, Indy doesn't give me co...

I am downloading an EXE file from internet using Indy (idHTTP), and I can use memorystream or filestream to save it to disk, but I really do not know if there is any difference between them (maybe ...

I implemented same code (to post a form) using delphi and python. The python code works perfectly, but delphi code fails. In python, I can simply write httplib2.debuglevel=4 to see what content has...

I'm trying to do a HTTP Authentication with Indy HTTP class. But for some unknown reason I'm getting an Access Violation error in this line: IdHTTP1.Request.Authentication.Username := Username; Th...

I use TidHTTP + TIdSSLIOHandlerSocketOpenSSL + 2 DLLs: ssleay32.dll and libeay32.dll from http://indy.fulgan.com/SSL. But I can see all work of my program in HTTP Analyzer! It works as HTTP, not a...

I'm using idhttp (Indy) to do some website checking. All I want it to do is check the response code from the server after my request has been sent, I don't want to actually have to receive the HTML...

I discovered that when setting the ConnectTimeoout property for a TIdHTTP component, it makes the requests (GET and POST) become about 120ms slower? Why is this, and can I avoid/bypass this someh...