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                     Dimeric Software

                    Product Information

                 Dimeric Server Pages (DSP)

                       FULL Version

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Thank you for purchasing DSP -- we hope you will find it as
useful and reliable as we do.  If you have any questions or
comments, please vist our website...

  http://www.Dimeric.com/

or send us an email...

  Support@Dimeric.com


Release Notes
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2.1.5 - January 31, 2003

  * DSPApp

    - Define PeerTimeoutSeconds property, which is the same 
      thing as IWebServer.PeerTimeout (also supported in 
      the INI file).

    - Expose folder handlers feature of the web server:
      > procedure RegisterHandler
      > procedure RegisterHandler
      > function GetRegisteredHandler
      > procedure ClearAllFolderHandlers


2.1.4 - January 29, 2003

  * This release contains minor changes for compatibility
    with our new product, Rinse.

  * DSPApp

    - Don't attempt to access FConsoleThread if it isn't Assigned.

  * DSP IDE Translator

    - Fixed two minor bugs in the translator.
      These problems occured when the .PAS unit
      was modified by the programmer (by mistake).    


2.1.3 - January 21, 2003

  * DSSocket -
    - Added IThreadedServerSocket.PeerTimeout
      property.  This allows you to specify the
      idle time (in seconds) before the server
      closes a peer connection.  The default value
      of this property is 0, which means infinite.

  * DSWebServer -
    - New method IWebQuery.HasOneValue, indicates
      whether the query has a single, non-empty
      parameter with the specified name.
    - Fix a problem with HTTP 1.0 responses
      that do not have a content-length.
    - Ensure that the headers are always sent,
      even if the request handler did not send
      any information.


2.1.1 - December 2, 2002

  * DSP applications now support ISAPI and CGI
    (in addition to stand-alone applications,
    as in previous versions of DSP).

  * DSP applications now use the DSWebPlugin
    architecture to support various web server
    environments (ISAPI, CGI, and stand-alone
    are supported now; Apache 1 and 2 are planned
    for future support).  The DSWebPlugin
    architecture is implemented in the units
    DSWebPlugin, DSISAPIPlugin, and DSCGIPlugin.

  * A new CGI proxy, DSPProxyCGI, is included
    with this version of DSP.

  * The New DSP Application wizard (in the Delphi
    IDE) now offers three choices for project type:
    Stand-Alone, ISAPI, and CGI.  This decision only
    affects a line or two in the project .DPR file.
    You may easily convert a project of one type
    to another by changing these lines as necessary
    (this is documented in the DSP Deployment Guide).


2.1.0 - November 18, 2002

  * Delphi 5 support.

  * New documentation: DSP Deployment Guide.
    This is available in the Delphi IDE, and
    as a separate PDF document in the Dimeric\Doc folder.

  * DSP now ships with Houston, a service that can
    launch your DSP applications automatically.
    Houston is also built into the DSP Proxy
    servers (see the Deployment Guide for details).

  * New demo application: WebLink.
    This illustrates how to use VDB in a DSP app.


2.0.0 - October 28, 2002

  * Initial release of DSP 2.0.


Getting Started
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The easiest way to begin a new DSP project is to use the
File | New | Other | DSP Application wizard in the Delphi
IDE.  This will create a new DSP application with a single
page.  After completing the wizard, simply hit F9 to run
your application.  A console window will appear, instructing
you to hit 'B' to launch a browser, or 'Q' to quit.
Choose 'B', or point your browser to
http://localhost:PORT/ (where PORT is the port the application
is listening on; this is displayed in the console window).

You can create additional pages using the 
File | New | Other | DSP Page wizard.  You can modify the
configuration of the application by editing its .INI file
(created automatically by the new application wizard).


Documentation
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DSP comes with a help file (Delphi\Dimeric\Help\DSP.hlp) that 
integrates with Delphi's on-line help.

DSP also comes with a syntax guide, which describes the features 
of .dsp files (Delphi\Dimeric\Doc\DSP-Syntax-Guide.pdf).

Finally, the DSP Tutorial provides a good introduction to the 
features of DSP.  To run the tutorial, open the project 
(Delphi\Dimeric\Demos\DSPTutorial) and run it in the IDE.  When the
application starts up, it will offer you two choices: 'B' to launch
browser, and 'Q' to quit.  Choose 'B', or point your browser to
http://localhost:PORT/ (where PORT is the port the tutorial is 
listening on; this is displayed in the console window).


Deploying Applications Built With DSP
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DSP features royalty-free application deployment.  You may
distribute free of charge applications (EXE files) and
libraries (DLL and BPL files) built with DSP and/or DSUtil.
You may not distribute DSP or DSUtil source code (PAS, INT,
DCU and DCP files).

See the software license (License.txt) for more information.