Chilkat v11.6.0 / v11.6.1 Release Notes
See Release Notes for Versions 11.6.0 and 11.6.1
Chilkat v11.5.0 Release Notes
✨ New Features HttpCurl A new Chilkat class has been added: HttpCurl The Chilkat.HttpCurl class executes curl commands and can automatically resolve dependent values needed by a request. Variables such as {{access_token}}, {{site_id}}, or {{drive_id}} may appear in URLs, headers, query parameters, or request bodies. If a variable is not yet known, HttpCurl builds […]
Chilkat v11.4.0 Release Notes
✨ New Features Js A new Chilkat class has been added: Js is a minimal, standards-compliant JavaScript engine designed to embed JavaScript inside applications with very small footprint and fast startup. It executes JavaScript code inside an application without requiring a browser or large runtime. See About the Chilkat.Js JavaScript Engine Ai Provider — […]
Java Create Signature / Chilkat Verify Interoperability
The following Java code produces a digital signature that can be verified using Chilkat RSA. Links to the Chilkat signature verification examples follow this code. The Java signature creation code does not use Chilkat to produce the digital signature. It also demonstrates how to save a generated key (public and private) to DER files that […]
Encryption Progress Monitoring
Question: Is there a way to encrypt a file with progress monitoring? Huge files can take a while and it seems like the app is hanging. Answer: Yes, here is the sample VB6 code: Public WithEvents myCrypt As ChilkatCrypt2 ‘ …. Private Sub myCrypt_PercentDone(ByVal pctDone As Long) ProgressBar1.Value = pctDone End Sub Private Sub Command2_Click() […]
Email Attachment Not Found?
The following is a list of the most common mistakes made when expecting to find an attachment in an email object: You downloaded headers-only. If you call a method to download only the headers of an email, then the attachments will not be included. With IMAP you will still get information about the attachments, but […]
Modify Email on IMAP Server?
Question: Is it possible to change the Subject of an IMAP email? Answer: The IMAP protocol is such that emails (on the server) cannot be changed. This is not a Chilkat limitation, but it is the way IMAP works. In other words, if you want to change an email, you can download it, make changes, […]
SSH / SFTP – Too much time between connect and authentication
The Solution: Issue solved. The problem was, that we stepped through the code and because of that too much time elapsed between connect and authentication. As we ran the program without breakpoints it worked. The Problem: The AuthenticatePw method failed and the LastErrorText contained this information: ChilkatLog: AuthenticatePw: DllDate: Jan 31 2010 UnlockPrefix: *** Username: […]
Getting the Root CA Certificate SHA1 Thumbprint
Question: (In VB6) One thing we would like to do is to read out the SHA1 fingerprint of the root ca. For example, the programm should read the user certificate. The user certificate has a certification path. Is it possible to read out the fingerprint of the top-level root certificate? Answer: Here is a sample […]
REGSVR32 0x80070005 Error on x64 Windows 7
The download for the Chilkat x64 ActiveX components includes a register.bat batch file for registering each of the Chilkat ActiveX DLLs. If some or all of these fail with an error code of 0x80070005, it is because of a permissions problem. Do the following to successfully register the ActiveX DLL’s on the system: Copy the […]
SSL/TLS Error – SEC_E_INTERNAL_ERROR
Problem: An SSL/TLS connection failed and the LastErrorText contains “SEC_E_INTERNAL_ERROR”, such as in the error text below: (See cause solution below) ChilkatLog: Connect: DllDate: Dec 4 2009 UnlockPrefix: **** Username: **** Component: .NET 2.0 objectId: 1 hostname: *.*.*.* port: 443 ssl: 1 maxWaitMs: 20000 windowsAccount: **** ClientCertDN: **** protocol: default An existing connection was forcibly […]
Very simple C# SSH Shell Console Terminal
Here’s an example that demonstrates a rough start to creating a C# console SSH shell terminal (where the user can type commands and output from the remote command echos to the console: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.IO; namespace SshTerminalConsole { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { Chilkat.Ssh ssh = new […]
Background Enabled Methods – Using Chilkat Asynchronously
Notice: The functionality described here is deprecated and replaced by a newer model for asynchronous method calls. The newer model was introduced in Chilkat v9.5.0.52, and is identified by methods having names ending in “Async” which return a task object. The Chilkat HTTP component has a set of methods and properties that allow already-existing methods […]