[Coco] e-mail app???

[jon bird]

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<CAK2=s2pupgSZ4+6MEzGSDQCiRxinXeKQWjnTi8EdBP5ck3RZ2w at mail.gmail.com>, 
Brett Gordon <beretta42 at gmail.com> writes
>hmmm... a CoCo with SMS possibilities.  Interesting.  It looks like
>twitter's API needs SSL to work :(  We can do a TCP connection using
>drivewire, but  SSL, I donno. Can a 64k machine do SSL?

I confess putting together a simple Twitter app for a Dragon/Coco has 
been on my list of "interesting projects if I ever get time" for a while 
now ever since seeing one on a Spectrum a few years back. Unfortunately 
that was before everything moved to SSL...

I did have a peruse some time back at embedded SSL libraries, they are 
out there and I'm fairly sure I read that one of them could fit into 
<64K after a bit of tailoring but I suspect I lack the expertise to do a 
good job on that. You also need SSL for the OAUTH signing of the URLs.

My initial thoughts on the matter (having already written a simple 
Twitter app in C) were to at first cheat and push all the SSL side of 
things to a Linux proxy sat on the same machine as DW. Then once I've 
got my head around the DW TCP interface, knock something up using a 
small C JSON library. Actually got as far as getting a semi-working 
build of newlib (for the C RTL) up and running but it was a bit of a 
hack and at present is generating ~22K executables for a simple "hello 
world" type app - so given my earlier comments on SSL probably this 
probably isn't a viable route to get a fully fledged client up and 
running....


>On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 11:10 AM, <farna at amc-mag.com> wrote:

>>
>> "Geez, now I want to write an email app. What were we talking about?"
>>
> What about a texting app instead? You'd still need to connect to the
> internet, or maybe directly to a cell phone or line, maybe one of the 
home
> phone cell boxes?  Not being a modern programmer (some BASIC way back 
in
> the day!) I don't know if that would be easier. Maybe go through a 
micro
> controller like an Arduino with internet access...
>
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