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The sp_OAMethod function is used to call ActiveX methods in SQL stored procedures. If the ActiveX method returns a string, there is a limit imposed by sp_OAMethod on the size of the string that can be returned. (Perhaps it is 4000 chars?) This blog post describes a way to workaround this limitation. An example of a method call that is […]
Chilkat already “supports” the Amazon Marketplace SP-API because it’s just a matter of implementing the API calls using the existing Chilkat general-purpose HTTP/REST functionality. Given that Chilkat is not an Amazon seller, we don’t have direct access to be able to write *and test* examples. We did it for Amazon’s older MWS API, but with customer-provided access to the sandbox. […]
If something on the client-side is blocking communications, such as a hardware or software firewall, or anti-virus, then it may be that a TLS connection is established, but then trying to read the 1st message from the server gets blocked. When this happens, the contents of the LastErrorText look like this. (The LastErrorText for a successful connection is shown below.) […]
This post is to explain the auto-reconnect argument in the Chilkat.Rest.Connect method. For example, the Rest.Connect method in C#. The Chilkat REST class is designed so that your application initially connects to a particular web server (at a particular port, with or without TLS), and then one or more requests can be sent. If the auto-connect argument was set to […]
Question: We are facing some problems about private key and x509 cert. In our case, we already have instance of java.security.PrivateKey and java.security.cert.Certificate How can we convert these instance to CkPrivateKey and CkCert for using in CkXmlDSignGen? Private Key Answer: Google java.security.PrivateKey Go to reference doc page: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/security/PrivateKey.html Find way to get the private key in some format. (Chilkat can […]
The following error was received from a call to Rest.FullRequestSb: ChilkatLog: FullRequestSb: DllDate: Mar 23 2022 ChilkatVersion: 9.5.0.90 Architecture: Little Endian; 64-bit VerboseLogging: 0 uriPath: … fullRequestBody: autoReconnect: 1 Sending request with body… sendReqBody: … –sendReqBody Sent request. fullRequestGetResponse: Reading response header… responseStatusCode: 200 Reading response body … readResponseBody: No Content-Length header AND not a chunked response. Assuming no response […]
Question: Trying to link Chilkat (C++) with the following libs: LIBS=-lstdc++fs \ -pthread \ -L${FMT_LIB} -lfmt \ -lspdlog \ /usr/local/lib/libredis++.a \ ${BOOST_LIB}/libboost_json.a \ … … ${CHILKAT_LIB}/libchilkat-9.5.0.a \ -lmongoc-1.0 -lbson-1.0 \ -lpthread \ -ldl \ -lresolv After we went from ubuntu 21 to 22 LTS, using same compiler, it stopped working. Now we get errors: /usr/bin/ld: … libchilkat-9.5.0.a(ChilkatResolve.o): in function `ChilkatResolve::bestMxLookup(char […]
Question: A customer wants to send emails with Office 365 and OAuth2 Authentication. The setup of the application in Azure is OK. It works for one user. For another user we have the following error: SmtpCmdResp: 535 5.7.3 Authentication unsuccessful [****.****.prod.outlook.com] For authentication I use the example: https://www.example-code.com/powerbuilder/office365_oauth2_access_token.asp What is surprising is that for the second user on same PC, […]
Question: Is it possible to install the Chilkat PHP extension at a sharing host like Bluehost? I’ve been trying but no success until now, so I am starting to think that it isn’t possible. Answer: It doesn’t look like it’s possible: https://www.bluehost.com/help/article/php-module You might consider hosting on Amazon EC2. It can be quite inexpensive, you’ll have full control over your […]
Apparently the full permission scope is required to do XOAUTH2 authentication in the SMTP protocol for GMail. See these examples https://www.example-code.com/vbnet/gmail_smtp_oauth2_access_token.asp https://www.example-code.com/vbnet/gmail_smtp_send_using_oauth2_token.asp The full permission scope is “https://mail.google.com/” The send-only scope is: “https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.send” Google claims that it’s possible to send email with the send-only scope, but we’ve found it is simply possible. It just doesn’t work. Don’t know why. Perhaps […]