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 — […]
SMTP Error: Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname;
To solve this problem, set the Chilkat.Mailman’s HeloHostname property equal to the fully-qualified hostname of the computer where your application is running.
InitializeSftp – Received FAILURE response to subsystem request.
If the SSH server is setup/configured to not allow SFTP, or your SSH user account is not allowed to use SFTP, the InitializeSftp method will return a failed status. Here is an example: ChilkatLog: InitializeSftp: DllDate: Oct 30 2009 UnlockPrefix: ABC123 Username: chilkat Component: .NET 2.0 SshVersion: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.5 SftpVersion: 0 channelType: session clientChannel: 200 initialWindowSize: […]
Mailman.VerifyRecipients — Caution.
Question: I started using MailMan.VerifyRecipients to periodically check bad email addresses and within one week of using the method the server was blacklisted. Is this something you have heard of? or just coincidence? Answer: I haven’t heard of this before — thanks for letting me know. I suspect the reason is that VerifyRecipients works by […]
Socket SendString (C++) w/ TCHAR
Question: I need to send a unicode string (e.g TCHAR *ptr) but the API only allows to send char. Answer: /* The _TCHAR data type is defined conditionally in Tchar.h. If the symbol _UNICODE is defined for your build, _TCHAR is defined as wchar_t; otherwise, for single-byte and MBCS builds, it is defined as char. […]
Cleaning up ActiveX Objects in Delphi — calling Free
When a Chilkat object is declared using “TChilkat*” such as TChilkatSFtp, and it is instantiated dynamically, then it must be explicitly freed (destroyed). The following code fragment demonstrates. If the Free method is not called, then object instances will accumulate in memory. procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var sftp: TChilkatSFtp; i: Integer; begin for i := 1 […]
Chilkat 9.0.6 Release Notes
The following changes, fixes, and new features are available in version 9.0.6. General Items listed here are fixes or enhancements in underlying internal code that may apply to one or more Chilkat products. Charset (i.e. character encoding) detection for HTML is determined by the presence of META HTML tag such as this: <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; […]
SFTP ReadFileBytes not returning all the data?
Question: I’m just beginning to work with some of the Chilkat components and I’ve run into an apparent issue with the ReadFileBytes method in the ChilkatSFtp component. I’m attempting to read an entire file using ReadFileBytes and only getting part of the file. Here’s essentially what I’m doing: * Use GetFileSize32 to get the size […]
Installing the SMTPQ Windows Service
Question: I’m trying to install SMTPQ on Windows Server 2008 only nothing happens. It won’t install the service, no messages, nothing. Answer: Download and install the Chilkat SMTPQ service from this URL: http://www.chilkatsoft.com/downloads_misc.asp The SMTPQ Windows Service is not installed (intentionally). To complete the install, click on the Windows Start menu button (bottom left of […]
Chilkat 9.0.5 Release Notes
Cert and CertStore Fix: Auto-cleanup of private key in \Documents and Settings\{User}\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\S-* when calling Cert.LoadPfxData or Cert.LoadPfxFile. (.NET) Cert.Dispose and CertStore.Dispose will clear internal object and potentially remove private key file if it was temporarily created via LoadPfxData/LoadPfxFile. Email Object Added SetFromMimeBytes method — allowing an email to be loaded directly from a byte […]
Using DOS Environment Variables in Self-Extracting EXE’s
This post pertains to using the Chilkat Self-Extracting EXE utility. The goal is to create a self-extracting EXE such that the files are unzipped into the directory where the EXE is located. To do this, the %CD% environment variable is used in a DOS command line. The intent is to use the -d option with […]