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Delphi Cookbook

You're reading from   Delphi Cookbook Recipes to master Delphi for IoT integrations, cross-platform, mobile and server-side development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788621304
Length 668 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Daniele Teti Daniele Teti
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Daniele Spinetti Daniele Spinetti
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Delphi Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. Becoming a Delphi Language Ninja 3. Knowing Your Friends – The Delphi RTL 4. Going Cross-Platform with FireMonkey 5. The Thousand Faces of Multithreading 6. Putting Delphi on the Server 7. Linux Development 8. Riding the Mobile Revolution with FireMonkey 9. Using specific platform features 10. Delphi and IoT 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Consuming RESTful services using native HTTP(S) client libraries

We live in an interconnected world! A lot of applications nowadays have to exchange data with remote systems. Some of the most commonly used and powerful mechanisms used to define a communication interface between software over the internet are RESTful web services (more information about REST and RESTful interfaces will be provided in Chapter 6, Putting Delphi on the Server, in the recipe Implementing a RESTful interface using WebBroker). Usually, in Delphi, you can use the INDY suite to access HTTP servers. When dealing with HTTPS, INDY produces some headaches because it doesn't use the same SSL layer of the operating systems, but relies on OpenSSL libraries, so you have to provide a specific version of OpenSSL for each different OS your application supports. You cannot benefit from the security updates from...

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