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Work on the Xb2.NET HTTP relay tunnel is progressing. We published the updated help documentation on the website. There are 2 new classes:

xbHttpRelayClient
https://xb2.net/xb2net/Xb2Net.htm#xbHttpRelayClient

xbHttpRelayServer
https://xb2.net/xb2net/Xb2Net.htm#xbHttpRelayServer

I'm working on something new that may be useful for other Xb2.NET users. We have customers running our apps, and we often need to jump in remotely to troubleshoot. Historically we used things like TeamViewer, RDP, VPNs, etc. The problem is getting clients to approve any of those tools for remote acc...

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Xb2.NET v4.3 is now available for download. This release brings low-level support for setting up a reverse HTTP proxy. It allows your Xbase++ HTTP server to act as a middleman (or proxy), relaying HTTP requests to a different server on behalf of the connected client. A reverse proxy can be used to:...

Version highlights: add support for OpenSSL 3.0  new xbHMAC function returns a keyed hash used for message authentication new SHA512_224 + SHA512_256 message digest algorithms new xbHexEncode / xbHexDecode functions for string hex encoding/decoding new xbHex2Dec / xbDec2Hex functions for numeric hex...

Xb2.NET v4.1 is now available for download. Version highlights: Supports IPv4 + IPv6 and runs on Windows XP, Server 2003 and up. Improved server performance & stability under extreme load. SOAP server now supports dynamically compiled PRG scripts. Modify server-side SOAP functions without stopping ...

Customers have been asking me for OAuth2 code samples so we spent some time and created a very simple client authentication sample that uses the Xb2.NET library. Download from here: https://xb2.net/download.prg?Xb2Net_OAuth2_Client_Sample.zip Note: You will need your Xb2.NET license key to download ...

Xb2.NET v4.0 with support for IPv6 & TLS 1.3 is now available for download. NOTE: In order to support IPv6 we were forced to drop support for Window XP and Server 2003. As a result, Xb2.NET v4.0 will no longer run on these legacy operating systems. At the same time however, we are also making avail...

Xb2.NET 3.7 is now available for download. This release adds support for OpenSSL 1.1.1 and the latest TLS 1.3 security. OpenSSL is an open source toolkit for secure communications and general-purpose cryptography. It is by far, the most widely used server TLS library. Updating an older Xb2.NET serv...

Xb2.NET v3.6.04 is now available for download. Here are the major highlights for this release: add support for server-side HTTP file and media streaming. Stream very large content such as music and videos directly from your Xb2.NET web server. This feature is also useful for downloading large files...