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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Question: I’ve been asked to write an application that supports WebHooks (asynchronous communications back to me) and RESTful API’s(synchronous send to them). Answer: Some REST API’s, such as Shopify, allow an application to create webhook subscriptions. (See https://shopify.dev/apps/webhooks) When some event happens, the service (such as Shopify) will send an HTTP POST request to your […]
A Chilkat user graciously reported an error in the example at http://www.example-code.com/phpExt/xades_facturae_3_2_es.asp “I use it to sign TicketBAI XML files and FacturaE in Spain. I noticed that the FacturaE signatures weren’t validating properly on some government websites with an error something like “the signature is not a correct xades signature”. The namespace “etsi” was replaced […]
Question: How can I set the default permissions of every file uploaded without the need to change the file permissions on the server after the upload? I want all uploaded files to have permissions 664. Answer: On most servers, the default file permissions should already be 664. To explicitly set the permissions to be used […]
This post it to better explain what happens when you create an “App” in box.com. Box will automatically generate a Service Account where the name of the account is the name of your app. When you make API calls, it is for this service account, and the files that exist and what you see are […]
Verify Go is Installed The $GOPATH environment variable should be defined, and “go” should be a command. The following commands check $GOPATH, check the version of Go, and list the contents of the $GOPATH directory. Download chilkat_go.zip into $GOPATH/src The Chilkat version shown here may not be the latest version of Chilkat. Get the latest […]
Previous Version: https://cknotes.com/chilkat-v9-5-0-90-release-notes/ Next Version: https://cknotes.com/chilkat-v9-5-0-92-release-notes/ Chilkat v9.5.0.91 Release Notes Smart Card: Improved automatic recognition and handling for various smart cards. Chilkat.Charset: Fixed behavior when ErrorAction property is set to value 1 to replace non-convertable chars with a pre-specified char. SFtp: Fixed: SyncTreeUpload did not pay attention to the SyncMustMatchDir property. Ssh: Fixed: The ChannelReadAndPoll […]
Chilkat recently added support for the cryptoCertum 3.5 smartcard (and also for cryptoCertum3, and cryptoCertum3.2). At the time of this writing (13-July-2022), the support is available in a pre-release of the next version of Chilkat (v9.5.0.92) We have it working on Windows, but should also be able to get it working on Linux and MacOS. […]
Microsoft is deprecating Basic authentication in Exchange Online, as announced here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/clients-and-mobile-in-exchange-online/deprecation-of-basic-authentication-exchange-online “This decision requires customers to move from apps that use basic authentication to apps that use Modern authentication. Modern authentication (OAuth 2.0 token-based authorization) has many benefits and improvements that help mitigate the issues in basic authentication. For example, OAuth access tokens have […]
If SSH public key authentication fails when using a DSA private key, it may be that the SSH server disallows using DSA private keys. If the contents of the Chilkat LastErrorText for methods AuthenticatePk or AuthenticatePwPk contains the following, then this could be the cause of the error: … Sent public-key request. AuthList: publickey,password Proceeding […]
If your code using the ActiveX generates the error “Error: OLE error code 0x80020006 Unknown name”, it means no method or property with the given name exists. Check the Chilkat online reference documentation for the ActiveX to see if the method or property actually exists. Here’s a sample error (in Italian) using FoxPro:
