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External Links

Atozed Indy Portal - Contains many additional Indy articles, demos, and the book "Indy in Depth".
Indy at About.com - Contains links and several articles about Indy.
SDGN Magazine - SDGN publishes montly articles about Indy.
Swiss Delphi Center - Contains an Indy section with many Indy articles and tips.
Indy 10 HTTP, SSL & SMTP - Some interesting articles reviewing TIdHTTP post, OpenSSL and SMTP.

Articles

Why Indy? by Chad Z. Hower (a.k.a. Kudzu).
Indy for Visual Studio.Net Developers by Chad Z. Hower (a.k.a. Kudzu).
Sending email messages by Zarko Gajic - Learn how to send email messages with attachments using Indy and Delphi. Full source code to a simple "SMTP Mail Sender" application included.
HTML Messages by Remy Lebeau - A brief discussion of how to make HTML email messages.
FTP List Parser Testing by J. Peter Mugaas. A helpful program for testing and developing FTP directory listing parser classes for Indy.
Setting the file date on Indy's FTP Server component by J. Peter Mugaas. A discussion about setting the file time on the Indy FTP server component.
The Indy FTP Server OnMLST Event by J. Peter Mugaas. Explains what the new OnMLST event in the FTP Server is for and how to use it properly.
Accessing A GMail Account with Indy - Using Delphi and Indy to access a POP3 / SSL account. Registration required.

Older Articles

This section is a bit disorganized, but we have kept it available for your use. Some of these articles were written for Winshoes 7, however they still contain a lot of valuable information.

Articles and Tutorials
Title	Author	Summary
Automatic file version check over the web (example program)	Corbin Dunn	A complete source code example of how to check for the latest version of a program over the web using the Indy socket components. Simple and easy example.
Uploading Files using Indy (multipart/form-data)	Shiv Kumar	In this tutorial, I'll show you how you can use Indy to upload files to a Web Server (either an ISAPI or ASP) that can accept file uploads using the W3C specified multipart/form-data encoding type.
IndySSL - using certificate authentication - Client side issues	Gregor Ibic	This document explains how to use certificate authentication when connecting to a site that requires certificate authentication.
Building a stand-alone Web service with Indy	Dave Nottage	This article shows how to build a Web service using Indy and Delphi 6.

What is TCP/IP?	Shiv Kumar	What is TCP/IP?

Title	Author	Summary

Programmers or entrepreneurs?	Juancarlo Anez	When royalties are out of the question, programmers find innovative ways of earning profits, such as providing value-added services. New ways of making business out of open source are being invented every day.

Untangling the components jungle	Marco Cantu	Sometimes the question isn't, "buy versus build," but buy versus borrow.

If the Winshoes fit...	Lisa A. Sandford	Nevrona Designs hopes its new ND-Winshoes will be a shoo-in. The product is centered around the popular open source Internet component suite, Winshoes. According to Nevrona Designs, ND-Winshoes provides enhanced technical support, documentation, and consulting services for Winshoes, similar to the services that Red Hat and other vendors provide for the Linux operating system.

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