Product Overview
Adding network communications capabilities to an application is never a simple matter. It requires specialized knowledge that might be outside an individual programmer’s expertise. For years, VBScript, Visual Basic and Visual C++ developers have relied upon the power, flexibility and reliability of the ActiveSocket Network Communication Toolkit from ActiveXperts Software. And today, also .NET developers use this control.

With ActiveSocket you can communicate across TCP/IP networks, including the Internet. ActiveSocket provides an easy-to-use scripting interface for TCP/IP communications. By using ActiveSocket, you can very easily create or enhance applications with network features.

Use ActiveSocket to integrate the following IP protocols in your application or script:

Icmp object - See if you can reach another computer; Determine how long it takes to bounce a packet off of another site, which tells you its distance in network terms;
Http/Https object - Log on to a web server, get the web pages and analyze the contents. Support for Proxy servers, SSL and password protected web sites;
Ntp object - Query NTP time servers and retrieve the actual date and time. Calculate offset between servers to see if your LAN time is set properly;
RSh object - Run a Shell Script on a remote UNIX or LINUX computer that runs the RSH (Remote Shell Script) daemon. Read StdErr and StdOut of the remote shell script;
Snmp object - Use the following SNMP operations: Get, GetNext, Set and Trap; support for SNMP v1 and SNMP v2c;
SnmpTrapOut and SnmpTrapIn object - Send and receive SNMP traps to (remote) SNMP agents. Support for SNMP v1 and SNMP v2c;
Socket object - Create your own client/server applications; your server-application listens for an incoming connection on a specific port, while your client application makes a connection to it; Client and server can communication bidirectional, with support for ASCII and binary data, in your LAN or through the internet; Automate Telnet sessions. Use the Telnet object to logon to a switch or router and make changes to the configuration. Log on to a mail server and list all items. Access a print server through telnet and reboot it. There are many devices and services that can be accessed by this Telnet object;
Wake-On-LAN object; Wake up machines on your LAN, based on their MAC address;


ActiveSocket is build on top of Microsoft Winsock modules; Unlike many other toolkits on the market, it just uses the Microsoft Winsock modules, it doesn’t replace them! The installation of ActiveSocket keeps your system clean.

The performance of the module is outstanding, due to its multi-threaded architecture. It has proven its strength in many business environments over the years.

ActiveSocket runs on the following Operating Systems:

Windows 98 and Windows ME;
Windows NT4;
Windows 2000;
Windows XP;
Windows 2000;
Windows 2003.

ActiveSocket is a COM-component, which can be used in Windows environments that support Visual Basic- or Java scripting. ActiveSocket can be used by any of the following development and scripting languages:

Visual Basic 5.x or higher - Windows based applications;
Visual Basic .NET - Windows .NET based application;
ASP 2.x - Web site based on Active Server Pages (server-side scripting);
ASP .NET - Web site based on Active Server Pages and the .NET Framework;
Visual C++ 5.x or higher - Windows based applications;
Visual C# .NET - Windows .NET based applications;
VBScript - Windows based scripts;
HTML - Client scripts within HTML pages.


Architecture

Windows includes routines for network and Internet communications. These routines are contained in DLLs which are collectively called Winsock (for WINdows SOCKets).
ActiveSocket is built on top of Winsock. It just uses the Winsock modules, it doesn’t replace them, nor does it<