Version
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Overview
Business application developers are often consumed by solving their business problems. Rarely is there time, and sometimes not the skill to pick apart the complicated Windows API required to securely communicate with a web service. Some languages make communicating with web services over HTTP easy, but little or no support for modern HTTPS communications.

WebX_http is the bridge to provide every application developer with the ability to send and receive requests to a web service securely with the latest security standards, leaving the application developer to focus on the content of the request, not the complicated transport protocols of the request.

WebX_http Version 5 carries on the tradition of being more secure, and expanding the features available to any application developer. Version 5 is the first version to include transparent support for all past API versions, along with the latest V5 API. You can now use any of the past API versions by simply overlaying the existing DLL -- Zero Program Changes! If you stay on your current API version, you will receive most of the benefits of Version 5 (TLS 1.3 support, strong encryption ciphers, etc) for only a few moments of work.

We also provide an easy migration example, demonstrating how you can upgrade your application to the V5 API, in order to receive the rest of the benefits (such as certificate validation), and set up your application to support new features in future releases.

Feature Highlights
Below are the main benefits in Version 5.

• Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 are now supported
• TLS 1.3 is now supported. If your server advertises TLS 1.3, the connection will be established at TLS 1.3.
• Strong cipher support has been updated to extend the cipher list.
• Certificate validation is now an option. The developer determines if a certificate issue (such as expired cert) will be accepted or rejected.
• Relaxed security option. By default, Version 5 now rejects insecure connections (TLS 1.1 and below). Although it is a bad practice, you can now downgrade the protocol security to communicate with older servers until they are updated.
• Version 5 supports all past APIs in a single distribution. Mix and match your existing code with just one library
• Transparent Migration support through alternate interface libraries. You can gain most of the benefits with Zero code changes.
• Expanded Name-Value limits. Restrictions on the length of names and their associated values have been removed.
• Better Buffer Security. Version 5 performs a high level of internal checking to prevent buffer overflows.
• Buffer size limits have been removed. There are no longer any artificial limits on the request or response buffers.
• Separate Request/Response Buffers. Previous versions used a single buffer (request in, response out). You can still use a single buffer for memory efficiency, or use a separate buffer for each.
• Enhanced error reporting. There are many more internal validations in Version 5, and an expanded list of error responses to help you analyze failures.
• Support for future features. The V5 API has been expanded such that we can add additional features while minimizing the amount of code changes to your application.

Requirements
WebX_http will run on 32-bit Windows from Windows 7 through Windows 11, and Windows Server from 2008R2 through 2022.
NOTE:To get the most secure protocol versions, Windows 10 or Server 2016 are recommended.

Pricing

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