Anyone know how to get streaming (via IStream) working over
HTTP and/or Sockets?

Works perfectly using COM/DCOM, but fails with the exception
EInterpreterError for the other transport methods. The error
message is 'Unsupported variant type: 400D'.

Does it use some other sideband communication?

This is a limitation of the marshaling code for sockets. I suppose you can
write/extend your own Interpreter/TDataBlockInterpreter and substitute it
into the default one used by TStreamedConnection.

Otherwise, I assume you want IStream because you want to push/pull some
binary data. If so, a variant consisting of a SAFEARRAY (VT_UI1) should do.
In Delphi: VarArrayCreate (..., varByte);

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Binh Ly
www.techvanguards.com

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