TS Net for Indy vs Business

[Charles Warwick]

Hi Andre,

I will be adding a fair amount of documentation for tsNet over the 
coming weeks that I hope will better answer a number of the questions 
that are being asked on the list.

In the mean time, I hope that the following two points will explain what 
is happening for you.


1.  For Indy users, SFTP and SMTP can only be performed in "blocking" 
operations.

This means if you call any of the non-blocking variants of the libUrl or 
tsNet commands/functions with these protocols, you will get an error.

For libUrl commands, non-blocking commands are:

"load url", "libUrlDownloadToFile", "libUrlFtpUpload", "libUrlFtpUploadFile"

For tsNet commands, non-blocking functions are:

"tsNetGet", "tsNetGetFile", "tsNetUpload", "tsNetUploadFile", 
"tsNetSmtp", "tsNetSmtpFile", "tsNetSendCmd", "tsNetPost", "tsNetHead", 
"tsNetCustom"


2.  For Indy users, SFTP and SMTP can only be performed to/from a 
variable - not directly using a file.

This means you will also get an error if you use any of the blocking 
functions which directly reference a file when using these protocols.

For tsNet, these functions are:

"tsNetGetFileSync", "tsNetUploadFileSync", "tsNetSmtpFileSync"


Cheers,

Charles


On 28/12/2016 5:31 AM, Andre Garzia wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Yes, we found that page as well. The problem is that even though the page
> lists features available to each license, there is no list of commands and
> functions per license. For example, it says that public key authentication
> is only available to business license holders, so we'd assume that if we
> call tsNetUploadFileSync passing a username and password as an SFTP URL,
> should work but it doesn't. Then we'd look into the docs and see that we
> can pass a settings array with username and password which also doesn't
> work.
>
> When I say "doesn't work", I don't mean it is buggy, I mean it returns an
> error saying the external is unlicensed. Which will probably make me
> fallback to using shell commands to scp/sftp/rsync or whatever I need to
> make file transfers.
>
> This "escalation of features" for file transfers based on your license for
> me is cumbersome as I am more prone to use other solutions than stay inside
> LC but this is a whole different thread.
>
> What I think would be useful and not disruptive to HQ business model is
> more info about this license limitations inside the LC dictionary. When you
> look at a given entry there, you don't see this info.
>
> om om
> andre
> PS: It has been a while hasn't it?
>
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 7:32 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote:
>>
>>> We need some help.
>>>
>>> We know that we can do SFTP with TS-Net external
>>>
>>> but
>>>
>>> functions that we try to use from an Indy LC return "unlicensed" even
>>> when, the documentation make not indication that they should fail
>>> without the business license.
>>>
>>> What we need is
>>>
>>> Documention on what functions and methods work for SFTP in Indy.
>> There's probably a more intuitive taxonomic placement for this (though
>> admittedly I can't decide on one offhand - suggestions?), but I poked
>> around the livecode.com site and discovered that if I click "Pricing"
>> then about the middle of the price comparison page is a link labeled
>> "Compare Networking Fearures", which leads to this page that offers a
>> breakdown by edition:
>>
>> <https://livecode.com/products/livecode-platform/livecode-
>> networking-layer/>
>>
>> --
>>   Richard Gaskin
>>   Fourth World Systems
>>   Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
>>   ____________________________________________________________________
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>>
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