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April 28, 2020

DNS Error: failed to get host address info, gai_error 8

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 Swift project.

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April 15, 2020

Python Error: UnicodeEncodeError: ‘charmap’ codec can’t encode character

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 line from the “https://www.chilkatsoft.com/exampleData/xero_accounts.xml”, Wages […]

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January 13, 2020

O365 IMAP Authentication: OAuth and MFA Solution

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 three protocols, an application can […]

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December 17, 2019

Chilkat v9.5.0.82 Release Notes

The next version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.83 Release NotesThe previous version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.80 Release Notes (Chilkat v9.5.0.81 was a hotfix specific to UWP (Universal Windows Platform) on NuGet.) Chilkat v9.5.0.82 Release Notes 1-Feb-2020 TLS 1.3: TLS 1.3 can be optionally enabled by adding the “EnableTls13” keyword to the UncommonOptions property in various classes: Socket, Http, Rest, Imap, MailMan, […]

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December 12, 2019

.NET Core Async Method Call with TaskCompleted Callback

Here is a complete example showing how to write a call to an asynchronous Chilkat method in .NET Core. (Note: This is .NET Core, not .NET Framework.) This example uses the TaskCompleted callback to get notified when the task completes.

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December 12, 2019

Accurate Date/Time with Timezone when Downloading Files from FTP?

Question: Can you please confirm when downloading file(s) from FTP using Chilkat component, the date/time stamp of the file (creation/modified date) is communicated after download? For example, a PC where the file is being downloaded is at EST while the server where the file was located is on PST timezone. Server time for example, was 4:00 AM, while PC where […]

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December 11, 2019

Delphi DLL TaskCompleted Callbacks

The Chilkat Delphi DLL (non-ActiveX) supports callbacks starting in version 9.5.0.82, to be released in Feb 2020. Pre-release Beta builds are available upon request. Also see: Delphi DLL AbortCheck Callbacks Delphi DLL PercentDone Callbacks Delphi DLL ProgressInfo Callbacks 1) First define a procedure exactly as shown here. Make sure to use the “cdecl” calling convention. 2) Set the task completed […]

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December 11, 2019

Delphi DLL ProgressInfo Callbacks

The Chilkat Delphi DLL (non-ActiveX) supports callbacks starting in version 9.5.0.82, to be released in Feb 2020. Pre-release Beta builds are available upon request. Also see: Delphi DLL AbortCheck Callbacks Delphi DLL PercentDone Callbacks Delphi DLL TaskCompleted Callbacks 1) First define a procedure exactly as shown here. Make sure to use the “cdecl” calling convention. 2) Set the ProgressInfo callback […]

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December 11, 2019

Delphi DLL AbortCheck Callbacks

The Chilkat Delphi DLL (non-ActiveX) supports callbacks starting in version 9.5.0.82, to be released in Feb 2020. Pre-release Beta builds are available upon request. Also see: Delphi DLL PercentDone Callbacks Delphi DLL ProgressInfo Callbacks Delphi DLL TaskCompleted Callbacks 1) First define a function exactly as shown here. Make sure to use the “cdecl” calling convention. Returning a non-zero Result will […]

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December 11, 2019

Delphi DLL PercentDone Callbacks

The Chilkat Delphi DLL (non-ActiveX) supports callbacks starting in version 9.5.0.82, to be released in Feb 2020. Pre-release Beta builds are available upon request. Also see: Delphi DLL AbortCheck Callbacks Delphi DLL ProgressInfo Callbacks Delphi DLL TaskCompleted Callbacks 1) First define a function exactly as shown here. Make sure to use the “cdecl” calling convention. Returning a non-zero Result will […]

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