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: Should I use CKPython or Chilkat2-Python for a new development (environment = Windows and Python 3.6) What’s the difference between these? Answer: The CkPython API is the original Chilkat for Python API that uses something called SWIG (swig.org) to produce the Python wrappers around the C/C++ implementation. The result is that CkPython API has […]
This article guides you to verify that the Chilkat ActiveX is installed properly and that it’s possible to create an instance of the object. Please first read this tutorial to understand basic concepts: https://chilkatsoft.com/activex_dll_registration_tutorial.asp Step 1. Download the 32-bit Chilkat ActiveX from here: https://chilkatsoft.com/downloads_ActiveX.asp *select the Zip Install (manual registration) * DO NOT unzip in […]
Question: We’ve purchased a few of your products in the past and they work great. Here’s a question on another one: I’m creating a .csv file within a vfp program and I need it to be an Utf-8 format. I’m not finding anywhere how to do that programatically. Do you have a product that will […]
Question: I am having a problem identifying read timeouts from sites. I set ConnectTimeout and ReadTimeout properties of the HTTP object. When the site fails to respond within ReadTimeout, the following happens: PText still returns 0 PText returns a response object Reading of StatusCode and StatusText properties of the response object is successful Reading of […]
Question: Do you have any idea what I could do to get around the following error that is generated by Chilkat DLL? I have verified that I can run PHP scripts (i.e., version()) through the port 3017 in localhost, so IIS and PHP are configured properly. The lcUrl = loOauth2.StartAuth() function call kicks up the […]
Question: Is it necessary to import certificate from USB token to Windows CertStore to sign with success? If YES, is there a way to do it programmatically and obtain the CommonName to store somewhere for future use? It will be very heavy for us to do it manually for each customer. Answer: Yes, the certificate […]
There’s a lot of confusion about exactly what login/password (or clientID/clientSecret) is to be used for obtaining an OAuth2 access token for PayPal REST API calls. PayPal uses simple HTTP Basic authentication (protected by a TLS connection) to obtain an access token. Using the Chilkat Rest library, your application would provide the credentials in […]
The “Failed to read KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST response” error happens if using a very old version of Chilkat SSH/SFTP with a newer SSH server. The solution is to update to the latest version of Chilkat.
This blog post describes a general procedure for writing code that calls an HTTP/HTTPS POST REST API and parses the JSON or XML response. Step 1: Form the CURL Command A POST request in the form of a CURL command will look like this: curl -X POST https://test-api.service.hmrc.gov.uk/organisations/vat/123456789/returns \ -H “Accept: application/vnd.hmrc.1.0+json” \ -H “Content-Type: […]
This blog post describes a general procedure for writing code that calls an HTTP/HTTPS GET REST API and parses the JSON or XML response. Step 1: Form the CURL Command A GET request in the form of a CURL command will look like this: curl -X GET https://test-api.service.hmrc.gov.uk/organisations/vat/123456789/obligations \ -H “Accept: application/vnd.hmrc.1.0+json” \ -H “Authorization: […]
