OpenEuphoria

Server Contact via Internet

• Posted by cklester <cklester at HOTPOP.COM> Jun 16, 2000
• 756 views

Howdy, y'all.

I'm going to start distributing some files via the internet and want to be
able to protect the licensing... as in, preventing people from taking the
file(s) I send them via email and passing it on to everybody else. Well, you
can't prevent duplication and distribution, but you can prevent operation!

Here's my plan: Set up a server so that the installation requires contact
with this server. IOW, the install program would contact this server with 1)
information about the person installing the files, 2) the serial number of
the installer program being used (each installer program can be uniquely
identified), 3) whatever else I need to get, and then return a "yay" or
"nay" in regards to continuing the install.

Anybody have any idea how I might go about doing this? I'm using DOS32 code-
is it still possible to access the internet (a particular IP address) using
EUPHORIA's DOS32 code?

What's yer ideas, guys?

Thanks,
ck

P.S. I could go solely Windows for the installer if I have to. I use DOS
because some of my users still use Win3.1... although that's less and less
each day and probably accounts for less than 10% of users now... hmmm...

P.P.S. I think this relates to David's requests for easy internet access
from EUPHORIA, eh?