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. […]
I haven’t seen this error before. A Chilkat user reported it, and then quickly found the answer: When trying to Create the Chilkat_9_5_0.http object with this example: https://www.example-code.com/vbscript/curl_username_password.asp , there’s a message that the ActiveX Component can’t create it, because “System: This operation is not supported with BTT enabled.” The cause of the problem had […]
Question: I would like to know if Chilkat is affected by the new security measures taken by Google concerning “Loopback IP Adresses” or “OAuth out-of-band (oob)” https://developers.googleblog.com/2022/02/making-oauth-flows-safer.html https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/oauth2/native-app#redirect-uri_loopback Answer: Chilkat does not use “oob”, so it’s not an issue. The loopback address, such as “http://localhost:port/”, remains valid if you define your app in the Google […]
Here’s a Classic ASP example using Chilkat to read an incoming JSON request body (such as from a POST), load it into a Chilkat JsonObject, and then write the JSON to an application/json response: <% If Request.TotalBytes > 0 Then ‘ Read the JSON request body into a Chilkat BinData object. set bd = Server.CreateObject(“Chilkat_9_5_0.BinData”) […]
In Chilkat v9.5.0.90, the Id attribute is automatically generated and added to the “Signature” tag when an XML digital signature is created. This results in a Signature that begins like this: <Signature xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#” Id=”signature-1502-9002-7096-7873″> Why did Chilkat do this? It is because if you or somebody else wishes to subsequently add an Encapsulated Timestamp to […]
Open a PDF in Adobe Acrobat DC. Then without doing anything else, close the PDF. Does Acrobat ask to save changes even though you made no changes? If so, then it means that Acrobat auto-fixed a corrupt PDF.
If the problem is with Office365, such as with SendEmail to smtp.office365.com, port 587, then updating to Chilkat v9.5.0.93 or later will solve the problem. For example, if you see the following, then update to v9.5.0.93 or later. … ensureSmtpSession: ensureSmtpConnection: smtpParams: SmtpHost: smtp.office365.com SmtpPort: 587 SmtpUsername: … SmtpSsl: 0 StartTLS: 1 –smtpParams smtpConnect: smtpHostname: […]
What is the MailMan.AutoFix property? Protocols such as POP3, SMTP, FTP, IMAP, etc. that sit atop SSL/TLS in the protocol stack, can establish TLS connections in one of two ways: explicit or implicit. Implicit SSL/TLS means that immediately after the TCP connection is established, it is implicitly known that client and server will begin with […]
The sp_OAMethod function is used to call ActiveX methods in SQL stored procedures. If the ActiveX method returns a string, there is a limit imposed by sp_OAMethod on the size of the string that can be returned. (Perhaps it is 4000 chars?) This blog post describes a way to workaround this limitation. An example of […]
Chilkat already “supports” the Amazon Marketplace SP-API because it’s just a matter of implementing the API calls using the existing Chilkat general-purpose HTTP/REST functionality. Given that Chilkat is not an Amazon seller, we don’t have direct access to be able to write *and test* examples. We did it for Amazon’s older MWS API, but with […]
If something on the client-side is blocking communications, such as a hardware or software firewall, or anti-virus, then it may be that a TLS connection is established, but then trying to read the 1st message from the server gets blocked. When this happens, the contents of the LastErrorText look like this. (The LastErrorText for a […]
