by dzzie (7 Submissions)
Category: Internet/HTML
Compatability: Visual Basic 5.0
Difficulty: Beginner
Date Added: Wed 3rd February 2021
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Adding SSL to your network communcations in VB is usally an expensive proposition both in terms of time and money. There are a handful of ActiveX controls out there to help you do it most with quite different programming models and some costing up to $1000.
ChilkatSSL is a free open source component based around the OPENSSL libraries that lets you add SSL enabled communications to your projects relativly easily.
The trick is, ChilkatSSL was designed for use in C++ and does not directly support VB...
This code will show you how to get it to work with VB through the use of an external VBized type library.
Download SSL Communications (5 KB)
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