Secure Oldies I : Introducing Windows Sockets and Simple HTTP Client
When Windows Takes Good Ideas from Unix
Series
Secure Oldies: Make a networked application running on old systems.
In this series, we'll try to bring modern SSL encryption to old systems. We're trying to build a simple HTTPS client to httpbin.org which which will run old Windows versions.
Posts in this series
Secure Oldies II: Refactoring and Make it Compile on macOS and Linux.
Windows and Unix is not THAT different
Secure Oldies III: Compiling for Windows 9x Using OpenWatcom
Making new code running on old platform.
Secure Oldies IV: Integrating mbedTLS FOR TLS 1.2 support.
Secure new software on old platforms
Secure Oldies V: Windows 3.x and Winsock 1.1
How the oldest Microsoft 32-bit platform fare running modern TLS.
