Chilkat v11.2.0 Release Notes

Pinned November 3, 2025

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 […]

Semantic Versioning Starting with Chilkat 10.0.0

Pinned September 26, 2024

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.  […]

Re-Sending Received Cookies with Subsequent HTTP GET’s

July 14, 2008 in Uncategorized

I’ve read information on your site about how to get the content at a URL and save it as an XML document. Below is a portion of the code to give you an idea of what I am referring to. String html = http.QuickGetStr(http://www.hocuspocus.com); … htmlToXml.WriteScriptToFile(xml, “out.xml”, “iso-8859-1”); My question is this: What if one […]

An error occurred on the server when processing the URL.

July 10, 2008 in Uncategorized

If you receive this error message from IIS7 on Vista: An error occurred on the server when processing the URL. Please contact the system administrator Do the following at the IIS Manager to get a more meaningful message: 1. Select the web site from the tree on the left and click on the “ASP” icon […]

Can Ftp2.SyncLocalTree be progress monitored?

July 10, 2008 in Uncategorized

The FTP2 component’s SyncLocalTree method downloads an entire directory tree from an FTP server to the local filesystem. There are several modes of operation: mode=0: Download all files mode=1: Download all files that do not exist on the local filesystem. mode=2: Download newer or non-existant files. mode=3: Download only newer files. If a file does […]

Internet Explorer Proxy Registry Locations

July 1, 2008 in Uncategorized

The IE Proxy settings may be found in the CURRENT_USER registry hive at this path: /Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Internet Settings/ProxyServer and /Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Internet Settings/ProxyEnable ProxyEnable will have a value of 1 if the proxy is enabled. Otherwise it will be 0.

Read and Write Binary Files in VB6, VBScript, ASP

June 24, 2008 in Uncategorized

The Chilkat FileAccess ActiveX is a freeware component that may be used to read and write binary files in VBScript, ASP, VB6, etc. Here are some sample code fragments: VBScript ‘ Download the Chilkat FileAccess ActiveX (freeware) from here: ‘ http://www.chilkatsoft.com/download/FileAccess.zip set fac = CreateObject(“Chilkat.FileAccess”) ‘ Read an entire file as binary data (returns Variant […]

OAEP Padding vs. PKCS v1.5 Padding Error

June 19, 2008 in Uncategorized

This error occurs if RSA encrypted data using OAEP padding is decrypted with the assumption that PKCS v1.5 padding was used. To solve the problem, set the OaepPadding property = true prior to decrypting. … RSA_decrypt: KeyType: Private InputSize: 128 Padding: PKCS v1.5 ModulusBitLen: 1024 Invalid PKCS v1.5 padding header (1) FoundBlockType: 197 ExpectingBlockType: 2 […]

Outlook vs. Mail Servers

June 2, 2008 in Uncategorized

Question: I am using your email ActiveX control and wanted to know if there is a way to update MS Outlook in the sent folder with the email I am sending with your control? Answer: Email clients communicate with email servers using a well-known protocol. Email clients do not generally communicate with other email clients. […]

ASP Upload Script – Receiving Form Text Fields with File Uploads

May 30, 2008 in Uncategorized

The Chilkat Upload ActiveX component (which is entirely freeware) provides the capability to receive both form text items as well as file uploads in a single HTTP POST. This post provides an example. First we show the HTML FORM with both text and file input fields. Then we show the ASP script to receive the […]