Clever Internet Suite version 9.2 overview

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These Internet components give you everything you need to jumpstart your Internet development without any external dependencies. The suite of Internet Components contain over fifty components which are constantly refined and improved.

The Clever Internet Suite components allow you to compose and parse messages in MIME format with multiple file attachments, build and send Web Form POST requests and many other features.

The SMTP, POP3 and IMAP clients allow you to send and retrieve email messages over the Internet.

All server components represent the fully functional multithreaded servers with the ability to customize the connection settings, support the most common protocols extensions.

Using the Clever Internet Suite you can add instant SSL / TLS / SSH security to your Internet applications and implement many useful Internet-related features:

  • Downloading, uploading and submitting of the Internet-resources.
  • Sending and receiving e-mail messages with DKIM signatures.
  • HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP and NNTP client / server solutions.
  • secure channel with X509 certificates support.
  • OAUTH 2.0 authorization.
  • SOAP Security and many more.

In the new version 9.2 we have added a set of strong cryptographic algorithms. The updated versions of the SFTP and SMIME components provide a set of advanced cryptographic features. The totally redesigned BounceChecker component extracts all email addresses from the message by using of the regular expressions syntax, analyzes the message content, and indicates, if the message contains the non-delivery report.

Starting from the version 8.0 the library was splitted on design-time and runtime packages. Starting from now, the components can be used by RAD Studio form designer in 64-bit projects.
The basic socket components were replaced and improved. The class inheritance was changed. Please see the Help documentation for more details.
The Help documentation is included to the Clever Internet Suite installation and also available at our website: Clever Internet Suite downloads

What's new in version 9.2

  • The full RAD Studio 10.2.3 Tokyo support.
  • SFTP - new strong cryptographic algorithms were added, SSH connection problems were fixed.
  • Get ready for TLS 1.3 - the components will use the new protocol after the official TLS 1.3 release.
  • The ability to provide the root certificate for SSL/TLS connections was implemented. The new SendRootCertificate property was added to all the client and server components.
  • Added an option to use the only strong cryptographic algorithms (disable known weak cryptographic algorithms, cipher suites, and SSL/TLS protocol versions, including RC4). The new UseStrongCryptoAlgorithms property was implemented in both the client and the server components.
  • International domain names (IDN) support was added to the URL parser, the out-of-date WinInet functions were replaced with the new code.
  • CertificateStore - added the ability to load the certificate chain for the given certificate.
  • The HTTP PATCH command was implemented.
  • SoapMessage - the message signing and verifying performance was improved. The XmlCrlfEncode and XmlCrlfDecode methods were replaced.
  • SMIME - new strong encryption and signature algorithms were added.
  • SMIME - the new Config property allows you to change the used cryptographic algorithms and other cryptographic parameters. The updated version of the component allows you to obtain an information about the used cryptographic algorithms, the signing key length, and digital certificates before verifying and decrypting the message.
  • The updated Encryptor component allows you to extract the used cryptographic algorithms, key length, and other information from the protected file. A set of overloaded methods was added.
  • The IMAP4 UTF7 name encoding was added. The implemented feature allows you to use international mailbox names with both the client and server components.
  • IMAP4 client - support for multiple untagged SEARCH responses was added.
  • IMAP4 client - the UnseenMessages property was removed from the TclImap4MailBoxInfo class.
  • The updated OAuth component allows you to refresh the authorization token and specify custom request fields while negotiating with the OAUTH server.
  • BounceChecker - The updated component extracts all email addresses from the message by using of the regular expressions syntax, analyzes the message content, and indicates, if the message contains the non-delivery report.
  • The Encode/Decode methods of the Encoder component were renamed and reorganized in order to improve the interface and usability.
  • Downloader, Uploader, MultiDownloader, MultiUploader, NewsChecker - the URL_COMPONENTS structure was replaced with the TclUrlParser class, the full Unicode support was implemented.
  • SSH engine - the support for the Global Request Handling was implemented.

Implemented Features

  • HTTP RIO component with SOAP Security support.
  • Simple HTTP Server component.
  • Complete Client / Server solutions with full SSL / TLS support for FTP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP4 protocols.
  • TLS / SSL support for all protocol components.
  • SSH support for the SFTP protocol.
  • Royalty free licensing. Free Unlimited Email support.
  • Fully-indexed help documentation. Delphi and C++Builder demos code.
  • Send / receive HTTP requests in JSON format.
  • International domain names for HTTP components.
  • The ability to verify the client and server credentials and certificates.
  • HTTP Client - HTTPS (SSL / TLS) protocol, NTLM and Negotiate authentication.
  • FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, NNTP clients - three new TLS modes - implicit, explicit and automatic. STARTTLS command support.
  • NTLM authentication for all mail clients was added: POP3, SMTP, IMAP. When the UseSasl option enabled,
    these components automatically determine and use the most secured authentication method.
  • POP3, SMTP clients - working with GMAIL service with OAUTH 2.0 authorization.
  • Fully functional HTTP / HTTPS client.
  • FTP Client - SSL / TLS support, the ability to set FTP file attributes and permissions were added. FTP FXP (Site to Site) transfer mode.
  • FTP Server - custom events for all operations with files and directories on the server, the possibility to customize all file-related operations
    including compressing and uncompressing functionality. Virtual File System.
  • Events for implementing the mail sending / receiving progress with the ability to interrupt the process.
  • Creating self-signed certificates, working with any type of certificate store including current user stores, local machine stores, file stores, registry stores and so on.
  • Creating and parsing email messages in any format with file Attachments and Embedded pictures, the ability to determine the attachment size before saving it to the disk.
  • POP3, SMTP, IMAP4 servers - SSL / TLS support, NTLM, APOP and CRAM-MD5 authentication methods, File System message storage.
  • POP3, SMTP and IMAP4 clients - SSL / TLS support, NTLM and CRAM-MD5 authentication methods.
  • Web DAV - manages remote files and folders on a web server.
  • DNS Query - queries a DNS server for records. This component can retrieve the mail exchange domain (MX records), resolve the host IP,
    retrieve the information about name servers and many other information from the DNS server.
  • DNS Server - implements fully functional DNS server and allows you to both manage handed DNS zones and cache non-authoritative DNS records.
  • SMTP Relay - implements a SMTP Relay agent. With SMTP relay, a mail message may pass through a number of intermediate relay or gateway hosts on its path from sender to recipient.
  • HTML Parser - parse HTML Tags: links, images, tables, meta tags and many more.
  • GZip compressor component - provides compressing / uncompressing feature when transmitting data over the Internet, storing data in to a file, database and many more.
  • RSS client - is used for creating, retrieving, and editing RSS feeds.
  • Email validation components - allow you to validate recipients email addresses, mailbox availability and also handle bounced emails.
  • Trace Logger - provides logging functionality for storing debug information and tracing your code.

Also a set of additional classes and components are available: Mail Message, HTTP Request, GZip compressor, MIME Encoder, S/MIME message, HTML Parser.
All these components make the application development process easy and clean. You can use these components separately from the main protocol components with any other library and even with your own socket implementation.

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Fixed bugs

  • SSH engine - the "Signature Invalid" error was fixed.
  • SSH engine - the connection unexpectedly closed after sending the ssh-userauth request - fixed.
  • SSH engine - the key exchange algorithm was fixed.
  • SFTP - the HMAC-SHA2 algorithm implementation was fixed.
  • The e-mail address folding was fixed.
  • Installer - the problems when installing the product on PC with the mapped Common and User Documents folder to a Network drive were fixed.

Known problems and restrictions

  • FTP client and server - data connection uses IpV4 protocol only.
  • Socks5 firewall - supports IpV4 only.
  • The HTTP RIO component is available only starting from Delphi 2005 / C++Builder 2006.
  • The SOAP encryption is available only on Win32 platform.
  • The SOAP encryption requires an external library clcryptext.dll that is included to the Clever Internet Suite installation.
    This library represents managed code that is wrapped by Win32 functions.
    The source code for this library can be downloaded separately at www.clevercomponents.com website.

Demo version information

Free Demo version of Clever Internet Suite is available for evaluation purposes only.
Demo version displays trial warning messages if components are used in GUI applications,
all other features are completely available.

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