Chilkat v11.3.0 Release Notes

Pinned December 16, 2025

  The main features of this release focus on Chilkat’s Ai class, enabling interactive AI response streaming directly into embedded desktop application browsers. It supports Azure, custom base URLs for OpenAI-compatible providers, and local providers like Ollama. ✨ New Features Ai Real-Time Streaming AI Responses to Embedded Browsers in Desktop Apps — Stream AI responses […]

Chilkat v11.2.0 Release Notes

Pinned November 3, 2025

Previous Version: Chilkat v11.1.0 Release Notes The main addition in v11.2.0 is the Chilkat.Ai class, and the Chilkat.StringBuilder.MarkdownToHtml method. Ai: The Chilkat AI class provides a unified API for interacting with different AI providers: OpenAI, Google, Claude, xAI, Perplexity, and DeepSeek. It provides functionality for conversation management, multimodal inputs, and streaming mode. Markdown to HTML […]

Semantic Versioning Starting with Chilkat 10.0.0

Pinned September 26, 2024

Starting with the v10.0.0 release (end of September 2024), Chilkat moves to standard semantic versioning.   Prior to this release, for various technical reasons, Chilkat was stuck with versions 9.5.0.xx, where only xx changed. For this first leap to semantic versioning, where the major version changes to 10 (from 9), there are no backward incompatible changes.  […]

SFTP – Change Current Directory

February 19, 2009 in Uncategorized

Question: I need to change directory before uploading (like a cd) since files must be copied into server sub-directories, and I’ve not found any sample or idea ( no ChangeDir or similar). Answer: SFTP is Secure File Transfer over SSH. It is not the FTP protocol. There is no similarity or relationship between FTP and […]

IIS 6.0 Upload Size Limit

February 18, 2009 in Uncategorized

The AspMaxRequestEntityAllowed Metabase Property (IIS 6.0) specifies the maximum number of bytes allowed in the entity body of an ASP request. The default value is 2MB. To upload files greater than this size, this IIS metabase property must be changed on the server.

Understanding SFTP Absolute FilePaths

February 18, 2009 in Uncategorized

Given that your SFTP client might be communicating with servers on different operating systems, what is the proper syntax for an absolute filepath? On a Linux system, there is no “C” drive. Let’s do some experimentation…. For this experiment, we have two SSH servers: 1) A Tectia server running on a Windows platform. 2) An […]

Block Encryption Algorithms and Encoding

February 18, 2009 in Uncategorized

Question: In our application we have the need to encrypt a 19 character simple string value. When running through the sample test program I found that the resulting encrypted string varied in size from at least 44 to 64 characters depending on the encoding type parameter. Is there a way to generate an encrypted value […]

Hidden IMAP Mailboxes

February 18, 2009 in Uncategorized

Question: I developed a mail client who download mail messages from a Cyrus IMAP server. The INBOX mailbox has some “children”. Some of them are defined as hidden, then using e-mail client such as Outlook express or Thunderbird they are not shown while on my client, ListMailboxes(“”,”*”) method (CkImap class) detect them and my application […]

ASCII or Binary Transfer mode in SFTP (Secure File Transfer over SSH)

February 18, 2009 in Uncategorized

Question: How can I set the type of the transfer (ascii or binary) in SFTP ? In FTP for instance, there is a SetTypeAscii method. Answer: SFTP is Secure File Transfer over SSH. It is not the FTP protocol. There is no similarity or relationship between FTP and SFTP. Therefore, concepts such as “transfer mode” […]

MS-Word document as body of email?

February 18, 2009 in Uncategorized

Question: My question is how to I send the contents of a MS-Word document as the body of the email (not as an attachment)? Answer: You cannot. Most email clients (Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora, etc.) are not capable of displaying MS-Word documents directly. (I’m not sure if Outlook does, I’ve never tested it…) Therefore, you would […]

SFTP Download Files Matching a Pattern

February 18, 2009 in Uncategorized

Question: I am trying your component to check if I can integrate it well in an application I need to transfer and manage files using SFTP over SSH. I’ve examined the samples and there’s one thing I’d like to do and cannot find it. Is it possible to read remote folder content but limited only […]

SFTP RemoveFile – File not found

February 18, 2009 in Uncategorized

Question: When trying to delete a file using SFTP with this line: success = sftp.RemoveFile(“out/” & fileObj.Filename) we get the error listed below: ChilkatLog: RemoveFile: DllDate: Feb 8 2009 UnlockPrefix: Anything for 30-day trial Username: IUSR_ABCD Component: ActiveX SshVersion: SSH-2.0-1.36 sshlib: GlobalScape SftpVersion: 3 hcCurDate: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:23:01 +1100 hcExpire: 4/2009 filename: out/abc123.edi […]

Selecting Smartcard Hash Algorithm

February 18, 2009 in Uncategorized

Question: I’m tried to produce a P7S file with the hash algorithm SHA-512, but the code always produces a signature with an SHA-1 hash for the data. If I’m selecting MD5 as hash algorithm it works fine. I’m using a Smartcard (D-Trust with Siemens Card OS 4.3) , ReinerSCT card reader and as Smartcard CSP […]