Internet Functions

The internet functions in Simba range from HTTP functions and low-level socket functions. With the HTTP functions you can scrape the web, send form data to web pages.

With the socket functions you can implement virtually any network procotol: there have been several IRC bots.

HTTP Functions

OpenWebPage

procedure OpenWebPage(const url : string);

OpenWebPage opens the given web page (url) with your default browser.

Example:

OpenWebPage('http://villavu.com');

GetPage

function GetPage(const url : string): string;

GetPage returns a string of HTML from the given web page.

InitializeHTTPClient

function InitializeHTTPClient(HandleCookies: Boolean): Integer;

InitializeHTTPClient creates a new client and assigns it an ID. You use this for all the other web functions that require a client.

InitializeHTTPClientWrap

function InitializeHTTPClientWrap(HandleCookies: Boolean): Integer;

This should probably not be documented.

FreeHTTPClient

procedure FreeHTTPClient(Client: Integer);

Free the HTTP client returned by InitializeHTTPClient.

GetHTTPPage

function GetHTTPPage(Client: Integer;const URL: string): string;

GetHTTPPage is just like GetPage, except you can choose which client to get the HTTP code from.

SetHTTPUserAgent

procedure SetHTTPUserAgent(Client: Integer;const Agent: string);

SetHTTPUserAgent allows you to change the agent string of a client.

PostHTTPPage

function PostHTTPPage(Client: Integer;const Url,PostData: string): string;

PostHTTPPage requests to post data (PostData) on the web page (Url) of the client (Client).

PostHTTPPageEx

function PostHTTPPageEx(Client: Integer;const Url: string): string;

PostHTTPPageEx is just like PostHTTPPage but uses predefined post data added by ddPostVariable and cleared by ClearPostData.

ClearPostData

procedure ClearPostData(Client: Integer);

ClearPostData clears the post data added to the web page (Client). Used with PostHTTPPageEx.

AddPostVariable

procedure AddPostVariable(Client: Integer;const VarName, VarValue: string);

AddPostVariable adds a post variable to the web page (Client). Used with PostHTTPPageEx.

GetRawHeaders

function GetRawHeaders(Client: Integer): string;

GetRawHeaders returns a string of headers from the specified client.

Socket Functions

Simba’s Socket Functions. Examples required; if you have one, please let u know.

CreateSocket

function CreateSocket: integer;

CreateSocket creates a new socket and assigns it an ID.

FreeSocket

procedure FreeSocket(Index: integer);

FreeSocket frees the socket with the ID (Index) assigned to it upon creation.

ConnectSocket

procedure ConnectSocket(Client: integer; IP, Port: string);

ConnectSocket connects the socket to an IP and port on the specified client (Client).

BindSocket

procedure BindSocket(Client: integer; IP, Port: string);

BindSocket binds a connected socket to an IP and port on the specified client (Client).

ListenSocket

procedure ListenSocket(Client: integer);

ListenSocket allows for a client socket to accept connections.

AcceptSocket

function AcceptSocket(Client: integer): integer;

AcceptSocket accepts pending connection requests to a client socket.

CloseSocket

procedure CloseSocket(Client: integer);

CloseSocket closes connections to a client socket.

RecvSocket

function RecvSocket(Client: integer): string;

RecvSocket method reads all data waiting for read.

RecvSocketStr

function RecvSocketStr(Client: integer): string;

Method waits until data string is received. This string is terminated by CR-LF characters. The resulting string is returned without this termination (CR-LF)

RecvSocketEx

function RecvSocketEx(Client, Length: integer): string;

RecvSocketEx returns received data of a specified length from a bound socket as a string.

SendSocket

procedure SendSocket(Client: integer; Data: string);

SendSocket sends a string of data to a bound client socket.

SetSocketTimeout

procedure SetSocketTimeout(Client, Time: integer);

SetTimeout sets a maximum amount of time for a bound client socket to wait for data from another socket. Time is in milliseconds.

SocketInfo

procedure SocketInfo(Client: integer; out IP, Port: string);

SocketInfo sets where a bound socket will be sending data to (out IP, out Port).

Generic functions

SetProxy

procedure SetProxy(Client : Integer; pHost, pPort : String);');

SetProxy configures a proxy with the given client (Client) proxy host (pHost) and port (pPort).