Hello developers,
I know you don't have much free time.
So I wanted to find an anti-software piracy solution. I've been thinking about creating a server/client with a socket, and hosting it in the cloud, to run in the cloud, and the client checking if it is enabled to continue running my system.

I really don't know how to do this above.

So thanks a lot for any help,

Reynaldo Henrique

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Il 13/02/2023 16:16, reina...@gmail.com ha scritto:

Hello developers,
I know you don't have much free time.
So I wanted to find an anti-software piracy solution. I've been thinking about creating a server/client with a socket, and hosting it in the cloud, to run in the cloud, and the client checking if it is enabled to continue running my system.

I really don't know how to do this above.

So thanks a lot for any help,

Reynaldo Henrique

I don't know how to run a xHarbour program "in the cloud" but with a
standard hosting you can do a lot.

You could run a CGI program on a provider's server. A program that will
be executed by the Web server at request. Since providers offer this possibility only on Linux hosts, the CGI must be compiled under Linux.

Or try a javascript solution: you can have a page on your website, with
a name difficult to guess, containing a list of valid licences and a
Javascript program. When the page is invoked, some parameters are passed
along with the URL
(www.mysite.com/Aasw54Xzvp0.html?param=1&opt=abcdef...). The script in
the page reads the parameters and emits an answer. Every time you create
a new licence, you must update the page of course. (Untested).

I suppose that other solutions are possible with PHP and SQL.

The desktop app should create a socket, emit the request to the server
and wait for an answer, then process the answer.

HTH
Dan

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El lunes, 13 de febrero de 2023 a la(s) 12:16:34 UTC-3, reina... @ gmail.com escribió:

Hello developers,
I know you don't have much free time.
So I wanted to find an anti-software piracy solution. I've been thinking about creating a server/client with a socket, and hosting it in the cloud, to run in the cloud, and the client checking if it is enabled to continue running my system.

I really don't know how to do this above.

So thanks a lot for any help,

Reynaldo Henrique

Hi Reynaldo

I have developed an applet for taking snapshots (screenshots) from users periodically, and the pictures are sent to a "server" hosted wherever you wish, as it depends on internet service (it could be a server in the LAN or in any other external host).
It is based on the code below, obviously modified in many different ways.

This code was published in the docs for the xharbour.com flavour.

Hope it serves for your purpose.
Regards
--
Claudio Voskian
Buenos Aires - Argentina

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// Server side
// This example is the server side of a TCP/IP communication between
// processes. The server socket is created with INetServer() and then
// configured with a timeout value. As a result, INetAccept() returns
// every half second when there is no connection request. This allows
// for querying the keyboard two times a second and check if the user
// pressed a key to terminate the server process.
//
// Note: the example must be built as multi-threading application
// e.g. Xbuild -mt TestServer

PROCEDURE Main
LOCAL pServer, pClient

CLS

INetInit()

// listen on port 1800
pServer := INetServer( 1800 )

// stop listening after .5 seconds
INetSetTimeout( pServer, 500 )

? "Server up and running", pServer
? "Press any key to quit"

DO WHILE Inkey(.1) == 0
// wait for incoming connection requests
pClient := INetAccept( pServer )

IF INetErrorCode( pServer ) == 0

Hello

Hello developers,

I know you don't have much free time.
So I wanted to find an anti-software piracy solution. I've been thinking about creating a server/client with a socket, and hosting it in the cloud, to run in the cloud, and the client checking if it is enabled to continue running my system.

I really don't know how to do this above.

So thanks a lot for any help,

Reynaldo Henrique

Hi Reynaldo

I have developed an applet for taking snapshots (screenshots) from users periodically, and the pictures are sent to a "server" hosted wherever you wish, as it depends on internet service (it could be a server in the LAN or in any other external host).
It is based on the code below, obviously modified in many different ways.

This code was published in the docs for the xharbour.com flavour.

Helo Claudio,

Thank you very much.

I tested the codes, and it worded very well. I doesn't compiled with xharbour but only with xharbour builder.

Reynaldo Henrique

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