Re: Requirements/Questions (General questions)

by condev1972, Wednesday, November 01, 2006, 21:16 (6378 days ago) @ wodSupport

Hi Kreso.

New files have '.new' appended to their name. Once you start your application, you can call 'Update' method to check if your app is ready to be updated (as a leftover from previous run)

Understood. But the component does then not (or is not able of)
to validate that all .new files still exist as they should,
right? Would I manually have to check for .new files at start
of my application to guess that it is updateable or does the
component detect this as well? If not, this might be a nice
feature for later versions (auto-detecting previously downloaded
update(s) for postponed update mechanism).
From my point of view the best way seems to highly recommend my
users to *really* process the update when something was downloaded
(incl. closing the application etc.).

Also - for later maybe - a backup and restore feature would be
awesome by way of named archives or sub-folders, i.e. if there is
a global version number for the full set of files, an archive
with a prefix and that version number would be nice to have.
This is not yet part of the package, right?

WinInet is used to fetch resources so that we spare on as much size of the component as possible. So, component reuses same settings as they exist in Internet Explorer

I think that should be ok for the standard case to fetch e.g. a proxy. But as mentioned earlier, this may require additional
authentication by the user once the extranet is being accessed.
This is often the case with corporate customers and therefore I
myself would need more flexibility for the user to configure some
settings. If the component would eventually offer properties for
proxy username and password, that should help a lot I think. :)

How is user authentication handled exactly? I.e. when using
password protected server directory, what happens upon
cancelled/wrong authentication? I do not see an error event or
errorcode property.

Some wininet error is returned. I am not 100 sure which one - you can try it out if you wish. I know *some* is :)

The question is, how does the component react on this? Does it show the error to the user and abort the Check ? Hopefully it will automatically abort the process itself and not just die . :)
Maybe you can check and explain that further, please? :)

Thanks a lot,
Tobias