Doug Murphy
dw-murphy at cox.net
Sat Oct 28 12:14:03 CDT 2006
Marty, Thank you for the heads up. We have an application with several hundred copies out that uses wininet.dll to pull data off a web site into the app. I am not looking forward to sending out that many updates if the change impacts our app. The "thinking about creating an application compatibility shim to help legacy applications by mimicking the old behavior" comment does not bring great comfort. One more configuration to set up in my predeployment test system. Doug -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of MartyConnelly Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 6:45 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: [AccessD] IE 7 changes Wininet.dll may affect FTP code Microsoft is going to start force downloading IE 7.0 through Windows update. This may affect FTP code or Internet TransferLib.I know people are using here. MS may come out with a shim to use old version of WinInet.dll or at least it's behaviour. Yup wininet.dll has changed their error handling in IE7. It only checks for null pointers now. This has been a long ongoing argument at MS. If you are an application developer using WinInet and you start getting crashes in these functions, take a look at the pointer values getting passed to these functions. You are going to have to check the parameters being passed in the mda from Dev's code See Changes in WinInet API validation code could lead to Unexpected Behavior http://blogs.msdn.com/wndp/archive/2005/08/18/453124.aspx On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:18:06 -0400, David Plaut <dplaut at MAIL.JHMI.EDU> wrote: >This is a heads up that IE7 changed something in wininet.dll. I use >Dev Ashish's very fine ftp code from http://www.mvps.org/access/ and >IE7 breaks it. > >My short term solution has been to change the code to point to a >version of wininet.dll prior to IE7. -- Marty Connelly Victoria, B.C. Canada -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com