A More Detailed Explanation of SSH Remote Shell
See the information at this Chilkat forum topic: How to get the full output of an SSH command.
FTP Timeouts on Large Files
Here is a description of the problem from the FileZilla documentation at http://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Network_Configuration#Timeouts_on_large_files A few possible workarounds are described below. Timeouts on large files If you can transfer small files without any issues, but transfers of larger files end with a timeout, a broken router and/or firewall exists between the client and the server and is causing a problem. As […]
Chilkat v9.4.0 Release Notes
(The version previous to v9.4.0 was v9.3.2.) (backward compatibility) Removed the deprecated CkCrypt and CkFtp C++ classes. (CkCrypt2 and CkFtp2 have been the primary C++ classes for encryption and FTP for many years.) (backward compatibility) Removed the deprecated Chilkat.Crypt and Chilkat.Ftp .NET classes. (The primary Chilkat .NET classes for encryption and FTP have been Chilkat.Crypt2 and Chilkat.Ftp2 for many years.) […]
Visual Studio Web Site Project vs. Web App Project (32-bit vs. 64-bit)
Some good information from a Chilkat customer: It turns out the problem was that we were using a Visual Studio Web Site project type. Instead of this, we found that using a Visual Studio Web App project type works. A “site” runs in some whimpy web server on the developer machine that is only 32-bit, something called Cassini, but some […]
SoSndBuf and SoRcvBuf Properties
Beginning with Chilkat v9.4.0, two new TCP socket performance properties, SoSndBuf and SoRcvBuf, will be added to each of the following Chilkat components/libs: FTP2, HTTP, SFTP, SSH, SshTunnel, IMAP, and MailMan (POP3/SMTP). These properties allow for the underlying socket’s send and receive buffer sizes to be set. These are socket options associated with the setsockopt system call (see http://linux.die.net/man/2/setsockopt ) […]
Twitter PIN-Based Autorization Examples
Twitter PIN-Based Autorization Examples are now available on http://www.example-code.com/
Twitter OAuth Example to Post Update (Tweet)
The OAuth functionality shown in this example is available in Chilkat v9.4.0 to be released in mid-December 2012. Pre-releases are available upon request by sending email to support@chilkatsoft.com. ASP: Twitter OAuth — Tweet to Your Own Account SQL Server: Twitter OAuth — Tweet to Your Own Account C#: Twitter OAuth — Tweet to Your Own Account C++: Twitter OAuth — […]
Chilkat Success/Failure Return Status Values in VB.NET vs. VB6
When programming in VB.NET or VB6, be careful that you are looking at the correct online examples. VB6 examples are located here. whereas VB.NET examples are located here. In VB6, it is the Chilkat ActiveX that is used, and return values (in general) are 1 for success and 0 for failure. However, in VB.NET, return values are True for success […]
Understanding Remote SSH Shell Sessions
This is a good discussion about Understanding Remote SSH Shell Sessions.
How to know that SFTP Upload was Transferred Successfully?
Question: In the online reference documentation, it says that “bool UploadFileByName(string remoteFilePath, string localFilePath)” will return true if success or false for failure. My question is that how does your component know that the file had been transferred successfully? Does it get ACK from SFTP server or that only means that client had sent the file successfully but not guarantee […]