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. […]
SFTP is not in any way related to FTP. FTP is the “File Transfer Protocol” whereas SFTP is a subsystem of the SSH protocol. SFTP is a protocol for file transfer over SSH. (Not to be confused with “FTPS”, which is the FTP protocol over SSL/TLS.) Most people familiar with FTP know about transfer modes: […]
Question: With the SMTPQ service, do you have some guidelines on the best practice settings for the number of threads required for sending different quantities of email? Answer: The SMTPQ is an SMTP client, and thus it connects to SMTP servers to send email. However, it may be configured to use any number of threads […]
ASP: POP3 SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) SQL Server: POP3 SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) C#: POP3 SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) C++: POP3 SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) MFC: POP3 SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) C: POP3 SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) Delphi: POP3 SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) Visual FoxPro: POP3 SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) Java: POP3 SSH Tunneling (Port […]
ASP: SMTP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) SQL Server: SMTP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) C#: SMTP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) C++: SMTP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) MFC: SMTP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) C: SMTP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) Delphi: SMTP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) Visual FoxPro: SMTP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) Java: SMTP SSH Tunneling (Port […]
ASP: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) SQL Server: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) C#: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) C++: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) MFC: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) C: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) Delphi: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) Visual FoxPro: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding) Java: IMAP SSH Tunneling (Port […]
The POP3 protocol is not very feature rich. To download an email “header” the POP3 client must issue a “TOP” command. The following text is from RFC 1939 and describes the response to the TOP command: … After the initial +OK, the POP3 server sends the headers of the message, the blank line separating the […]
New versions of most Chilkat components were released on 3-November-2008. This blog post lists the major changes and new features. For those components with no apparent changes, minor new versions are released to take advantage of any underlying improvements in the internal (Chilkat) libs that form the base of all Chilkat products. New Products, Features, […]
For more information about this error message, see this blog post: WSAEWOULDBLOCK The socket would block.
Question: (Regarding the Chilkat Diffie-Hellman Component/Library) If it is possible, we´d like to know what algorithm is used to generate random numbers because one of our clients is very strict with security and they demand us this information. Answer: The most difficult problem in implementing a good random number generator is in generating a good […]
Question: Can the Chilkat library be used to decrypt a large file (
