This toolkit offers a range of features to improve applications and scripts with functions such as client/server network socket communication, Wake On Lan (WOL), remote shell script (RSH) capabilities, and automated telnet sessions.
ActiveSocket is a powerful toolkit that can help developers enhance their applications or scripts with client/server network socket communication, RSH capabilities, automated telnet sessions, and more. This component can be used with a variety of platforms and development tools, including ASP, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, Visual Basic.NET, Visual C++, Visual C# .NET, and VBScript applications/tools. It is based on Microsoft's Winsock modules.
The toolkit comes with samples that support all platforms and development tools, making it easy to get started with. ActiveSocket can be used for different purposes, including:
- Automating telnet sessions: ActiveSocket can be used to automate telnet sessions for configuring network switches (3COM, Cisco), hiding passwords and specific configuration menu's from operators. This can be done in combination with a web server and delegated to specific operators who can use the web interface. The web-application establishes the actual Telnet session.
- Creating client/server applications: Developers can use ActiveSocket to create their own client/server applications. The server-application listens for an incoming connection on a specific port, while the client application makes a connection to it.
- Enhancing applications with client/server technologies: ActiveSocket can be used to enhance applications with client/server technologies, making them more capable and responsive.
- Running Shell Scripts on remote UNIX or LINUX computers: ActiveSocket supports the RSH daemon and can be used to run Shell Scripts on remote UNIX or LINUX computers.
- Wake On Lan (WOL): ActiveSocket can wake up machines based on their MAC address.
ActiveSocket can be used on Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows .NET platforms. Overall, this is a powerful toolkit that can help developers add client/server network socket communication capabilities to their applications/scripts.
The toolkit comes with samples that support all platforms and development tools, making it easy to get started with. ActiveSocket can be used for different purposes, including:
- Automating telnet sessions: ActiveSocket can be used to automate telnet sessions for configuring network switches (3COM, Cisco), hiding passwords and specific configuration menu's from operators. This can be done in combination with a web server and delegated to specific operators who can use the web interface. The web-application establishes the actual Telnet session.
- Creating client/server applications: Developers can use ActiveSocket to create their own client/server applications. The server-application listens for an incoming connection on a specific port, while the client application makes a connection to it.
- Enhancing applications with client/server technologies: ActiveSocket can be used to enhance applications with client/server technologies, making them more capable and responsive.
- Running Shell Scripts on remote UNIX or LINUX computers: ActiveSocket supports the RSH daemon and can be used to run Shell Scripts on remote UNIX or LINUX computers.
- Wake On Lan (WOL): ActiveSocket can wake up machines based on their MAC address.
ActiveSocket can be used on Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows .NET platforms. Overall, this is a powerful toolkit that can help developers add client/server network socket communication capabilities to their applications/scripts.
What's New
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