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. […]
If an HTTP GET works in a browser, but does not work from your application, then check to see if your site uses Cloudfare with the Browser Integrity Check turned on. If so, then for testing purposes, temporarily turn BIC off, and try again. The Browser Integrity Check (BIC) feature in Cloudflare is a security […]
Question: A particular REST/Web API returns a cookie. I need to capture this cookie and use it when sending subsequent POSTs. For example, this is the CURL statement to login and save the response cookie(s) to a file. curl -c cookies.txt -H “Content-Type: application/json” -X POST -d ‘{“username”:”user”,”password”:”pass”}’ http://192.168.1.1/api/login Then I need to use the […]
This blog post talks about the Let’s Encrypt “DST Root CA X3 Expiration” that happened today on 30-Sep-2021. See these articles for a detailed description: Extending Android Device Compatibility for Let’s Encrypt Certificates and DST Root CA X3 Expiration (September 2021) Because the DST Root CA X3 trust anchor cert expired, problems with Chilkat HTTP […]
