[Lazarus] HTTP and POP3 client components

Michael Schnell mschnell at lumino.de
Mon Dec 3 11:59:34 CET 2012


Hi,

Sorry for being a nuisance again :-[ ....

We need to do a command line program to run n Linux (PC, later ARM), 
that  reads a mail via POP3 and then does some communication towards 
some HTTP server (reading some pages and setting a value with some cgi 
program running there.)

I do know that decent HTTP and POP3 components are available with Indy, 
but I am afraid of trying to use Indy on Lazarus/ARM/Linux.

As we already successfully did an FTP client program on Lazarus with 
lnet, I decided to try to use lnet, here again.

So I installed the latest lnet package and found that in fact a HTTP 
client component is available.

Up till now, I failed to find a decent documentation, so I was not able 
to read a page from a web server (in fact I would need a proxy for some 
environments, but - at least on Linux - I suppose there is a system wide 
proxy definition that might automatically apply.

In fact "connect" seems to work, but what now ?....

Seemingly lnet does not provide a POP3 client component out of the box. 
So what to do ?

Thanks for any pointers,
-Michael




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