Installation and Software Requirements

The “4D Internet Commands” plug-in is integrated in 4D in the same way as other plug-ins.

4D Internet Commands becomes automatically available when you install a 4D product since the plug-in is automatically installed in the PlugIns folder of your application.

For more information on plug-in installation and configuration, please refer to the 4D Product Line Installation Guide.

The list below details the software requirements to use 4D Internet Commands in a 4D database. It is not necessary to meet all of these requirements, only those pertaining to the set of commands that will be used. Virtually all of the external calls communicate via the TCP/IP protocol and a TCP/IP protocol stack should be considered a requirement across all functionality sets.

The system requirements are the same as those for 4D. For more information, please refer to the 4D Product Line Installation Guide.

- 4D for Mac version 12 or higher
- 4D for Windows version 12 or higher

Note that with a 64-bit 4D Server (available starting with version 12.1), you must install version 12.1 (minimum) of 4D Internet Commands.

All the commands throughout 4D Internet Commands use the TCP/IP protocol for communications. Any computer which is to execute commands within this plug-in must have a TCP/IP driver installed and properly configured with a unique IP address. Most operating systems have TCP/IP drivers pre-installed, examples of which are BSD Sockets on the Macintosh and Winsock on Windows.
For more information on configuring TCP/IP, please refer to your network administrator.

In order to use the suite of commands in 4D Internet Commands, you must have access to a network that supports TCP/IP.

 Beginning with version 12.1 of 4D Internet Commands, you can use the SSL protocol with commands used for sending messages and connecting with the e-mail servers. No special configuration is needed to use this protocol in 4DIC.

Note: The implementation of SSL in 4DIC 12.1 uses the "implicit method".

For many of the 4D Internet Commands, it is necessary to have access to a domain name server. For more information, please refer to your network administrator.

In order to send mail using the set of SMTP commands, it is necessary for the sender to have access to a SMTP mail server, which will forward the message to a POP3 mail server.

In order to use the POP3 commands, you must have an account on a POP3 mail server.

In order to use the IMAP commands, you must have an account on an IMAP mail server.