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. […]
Question I need to get a token: URL TEST : “https://apitest.dtes.mh.gob.sv/seguridad/auth” Method : POST Parameters Headers Content-type : application/x-www-form-urlencoded Body user (string) pwd (string) Answer See the online tutorial explaining common HTTP requests at Format of Common HTTP Requests. Specifically, look here: https://www.chilkatsoft.com/http_post_url_encoded.asp
Chilkat does not provide functionality for XML-to-JSON conversion (or the reverse) because XML does not convert to JSON in an unambiguous way. XML and JSON have different structural and data modeling principles, leading to potential challenges and ambiguities during the conversion process. Some factors that contribute to the potential ambiguities are: Hierarchical vs. Flat Structure: […]
Question: I’m using the LoadPfxFile method of the cert object and it takes about 4 or 5 seconds in load the PFX certificate. On the other hand, if I sign the document using an installed certificate, it’s instantaneous. Why does LoadPfxFile take so much time? Is there a way to reduce the loadPfxFile time? Answer: […]
1. Log in to your Intuit Developer Account Go to https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/homepage and Sign In. 2. Go to the Dashboard Click on the “Dashboard” link in the top right of the web page. 3. Click on the blue “+ Create an app” link/button. 4. Select the “Quickbooks Online and Payments” platform. 5. Give your app a […]
Question: Unable to install Chilkat because of the Python version and architecture error: “This Python version does not match the downloaded Chilkat module.” Answer: Refer to the install instructions here: https://www.chilkatsoft.com/installPythonLinux2.asp You can open the installChilkat.py script in a text editor to see what it does. It’s simply verifying that your version of Python (such […]
Chilkat is going to try to blog daily notes on issues we’re handling for customers. So… starting for today.. Suddenly SOAP XML posts to the Brasilian tax server https://nfce.sefazrs.rs.gov.br/ws/NfeAutorizacao/NFeAutorizacao4.asmx stop working with a 415 response code having error “The server cannot service the request because the media type is unsupported.”. The error “media type is […]
Let’s say you have a PHP script (not PHP on a web server, but simply a .php script that you run from a command line), this is one way to start/launch a browser and automatically load/navigate to a URL. <?php // Type “start iexplore” and press “Enter” to open Internet Explorer and view its default […]
If your MacOSX/iOS Swift application gets this error in the Chilkat LastErrorText: smtpSocketConnect: socket2Connect: connect2: connectImplicitSsl: connectSocket: connect_ipv6_or_ipv4: getAddressInfo: Failed to get host address info. (4) gai_error: 8 hostOrIpAddr: smtp.gmail.com port: 465 –getAddressInfo getAddressInfo failed. –connect_ipv6_or_ipv4 –connectSocket –connectImplicitSsl ConnectFailReason: DNS lookup failed –connect2 –socket2Connect The solution is to enable the Outgoing Connections option in your […]
Question: I’ve discovered an error on your example ( https://www.example-code.com/chilkat2-python/xml_i.asp ) as follows… AccountID: f1f489fb-9267-429e-a1dc-bc63a7c3f71e Traceback (most recent call last): File “M:\EXPORTIT\PY\CK_xero_accounts.py”, line 50, in print(“Name: ” + xml.GetChildContent(“Accounts|Account[i]|Name”)) File “m:\Python\Python35-32\lib\encodings\cp437.py”, line 19, in encode return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0] UnicodeEncodeError: ‘charmap’ codec can’t encode character ‘\u2013′ in position 20: character maps to It’s failing on the this […]
There is much confusion and worry about Microsoft’s plans to disable standard password authentication for the IMAP, and POP3 protocols. Here is the announcement posted on 20-Sept-2019 on the Office 365 blog: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/blogs/end-of-support-for-basic-authentication-access-to-exchange-online-apis-for-office-365-customers/ Chilkat already supports OAuth2 for the IMAP, POP3, and SMTP protocols. (Microsoft will continue to support basic auth for SMTP) In all […]
