Indy Articles

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General

Introduction to Sockets

This article is an introduction to socket (TCP/IP sockets) concepts. It's not meant to be a complete coverage of all socket topics; it's meant as a primer to educate the reader at a level at which socket programming can be easily communicated..... Full Article

Connection Closed Gracefully

What is the EIdConnClosedGracefully exception? Why do I see this exception in my code?

Many Indy users are annoyed by the EIdConnClosedGracefully exception that is raised with Indy servers, especially the HTTP and other servers. EIdConnClosedGracefully is an exception signaling that the connection has been closed by the other side intentionally...... Full Article

For .NET Developers

Indy for Visual Studio.NET Developers

This article will cover some of the Indy basics, but is specifically geared towards Visual Studio.Net developers. It provides source code in C#, Visual Basic, and Delphi. It also answers some common questions from Visual Studio.Net users...... Full Article

Why Indy?

A common question from .net users is: "Why should I use Indy when .NET has socket support?". This is a very reasonable question, with simple but not immediately obvious answers...... Full Article

Indy 10

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Indy 9

Introduction to Indy

Indy uses blocking socket calls. Blocking calls are much like reading and writing to a file. When you read data, or write data, the function will not return until the operation is complete...... Full Article

Overview of Internet Direct

Full contents of Chapter 20 of "Building Kylix Applications" by Cary Jensen. Chapters by Chad Z. Hower a.k.a "Kudzu". While this article was written for Kylix, it also applies to Windows. Full Article

Using Internet Direct

Full contents of Chapter 21 of "Building Kylix Applications" by Cary Jensen. Chapters by Chad Z. Hower a.k.a "Kudzu". While this article was written for Kylix, it also applies to Windows. Full Article

Other Topics

Introduction to Web Development with Delphi

This paper is in an introduction to web development using Delphis webbroker technology. It assumes that the reader is familiar with the Delphi environment and Object Pascal, ..... Full Article

Older Articles

Many older and other articles exist at the Kudzu World Article Archive.