LabWINDOWS - Secure communication with internet possible ?

[winterishere8]

All

Would it be possible to write a labwindows code to communicate securely with the web server ? I want to write a labwindows code to send an URL to a server and read the server response through its HTML or inner text. This is not possible with ActiveX in LabView which was the only way I could do it in LabVIEW. LEt me know if this can be done in LAbwindows or C. IF so, please give me tips on how to accomplish this. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Wendy L]

Hello Maximus,

Were you able to get this procedure working with ActiveX in LabVIEW?  If so, you will be able to do the same thing in CVI.  You will have to create an ActiveX Controller and use the various functions in the resulting ActiveX controller that map to the properties/methods you used in LabVIEW.  On the other hand, if ActiveX does not work, you could set up your system to communicate via TCP/IP.  The following tutorial documents how to do this in CVI.  Also, I would suggest taking a look at the various TCP shipping examples in the <cvi directory>/samples/tcp folder.

Thanks.

[winterishere8]

I finally got it working with LabVIEW. Using ActiveX was easy but there was cacheing and hence a delay between the server and my code. I finally had to loop continuously till the browser was in "Ready state". I used activex only cuz I can do a https. TCP and data socket do not support https.

Thanks