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Question: We’ve purchased a few of your products in the past and they work great. Here’s a question on another one: I’m creating a .csv file within a vfp program and I need it to be an Utf-8 format. I’m not finding anywhere how to do that programatically. Do you have a product that will convert? Answer: For those that […]
Question: I am having a problem identifying read timeouts from sites. I set ConnectTimeout and ReadTimeout properties of the HTTP object. When the site fails to respond within ReadTimeout, the following happens: PText still returns 0 PText returns a response object Reading of StatusCode and StatusText properties of the response object is successful Reading of BodyStr property of the response […]
Question: Do you have any idea what I could do to get around the following error that is generated by Chilkat DLL? I have verified that I can run PHP scripts (i.e., version()) through the port 3017 in localhost, so IIS and PHP are configured properly. The lcUrl = loOauth2.StartAuth() function call kicks up the WSAEACCESS error. I can see […]
Question: Is it necessary to import certificate from USB token to Windows CertStore to sign with success? If YES, is there a way to do it programmatically and obtain the CommonName to store somewhere for future use? It will be very heavy for us to do it manually for each customer. Answer: Yes, the certificate from the certificate-based USB token […]
There’s a lot of confusion about exactly what login/password (or clientID/clientSecret) is to be used for obtaining an OAuth2 access token for PayPal REST API calls. PayPal uses simple HTTP Basic authentication (protected by a TLS connection) to obtain an access token. Using the Chilkat Rest library, your application would provide the credentials in this way (in pseudo-code) rest.SetAuthBasic(“CLIENT_ID”, […]
The “Failed to read KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST response” error happens if using a very old version of Chilkat SSH/SFTP with a newer SSH server. The solution is to update to the latest version of Chilkat.
This blog post describes a general procedure for writing code that calls an HTTP/HTTPS POST REST API and parses the JSON or XML response. Step 1: Form the CURL Command A POST request in the form of a CURL command will look like this: curl -X POST https://test-api.service.hmrc.gov.uk/organisations/vat/123456789/returns \ -H “Accept: application/vnd.hmrc.1.0+json” \ -H “Content-Type: application/json” \ -H “Authorization: Bearer […]
This blog post describes a general procedure for writing code that calls an HTTP/HTTPS GET REST API and parses the JSON or XML response. Step 1: Form the CURL Command A GET request in the form of a CURL command will look like this: curl -X GET https://test-api.service.hmrc.gov.uk/organisations/vat/123456789/obligations \ -H “Accept: application/vnd.hmrc.1.0+json” \ -H “Authorization: Bearer hmrc_app_server_token” Some notes: Header […]
The v9.5.0.74 release notes are available here: Chilkat v9.5.0.74 Release Notes v9.5.0.75 Release Notes: Important: This release accidentally breaks Amazon MWS (not AWS) authentication. If using MWS, send email to support@chilkatsoft.com for a hotfix, or revert back to v9.5.0.73. Smartcard/USB Tokens Support for Smartcard and USB tokens is much improved. Note: At this point, smartcards and USB tokens are supported […]
Question: One use is for unzip a resource embed into an assembly (.dll). The resource is approximately 224MB in size. The program sometimes throws an out-of-memory exception. The exception is thrown by Chilkat.Zip.OpenFromMemory and OpenFromByteData methods. How can this problem be solved? Answer: First, this is truly an out-of-memory condition. The two possible solutions are (1) to allow […]