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* As with any new release, some fixes occur deep within the internal Chilkat code base and are applicable to many classes/objects. These are labeled as “Internal” fixes. FTP2: Fixed XCRC problem. HTTP: Added the AwsEndpoint property. This is the regional endpoint (domain) to be used for Amazon S3 method calls. The default value is “s3.amazonaws.com”. This can be set […]
Chilkat does not use OpenSSL and is not affected by the Heartbleed bug.
Chilkat MHT methods that returned either an email object or a MIME object were removed in the v9.5.0 release. The reason for this was to decouple the internal dependencies between these objects. In some environments, such as for iOS, the size of the resultant executable can be important, and the internal linking between these objects increases the size. The decision […]
The Chilkat C/C++ library downloads marked as “XP” for VC++ 2012 and 2013 are compiled using the “XP” platform toolset. In Visual Studio, the toolset is chosen as shown here:
The Chilkat Mono Library for Linux, Windows, and MAC OS X Beta is ready for testing: http://www.chilkatsoft.com/mono.asp
The Chilkat Runtime Component for Windows Phone is available for testing: http://www.chilkatsoft.com/winPhone.asp
The Chilkat C/C++ libs for Visual Studio 2013 (VC12) downloads are ready: 32-bit: http://www.chilkatsoft.com/preRelease/chilkat-9.5.0-x86-vc12.zip 64-bit: http://www.chilkatsoft.com/preRelease/chilkat-9.5.0-x86_64-vc12.zip
A new build of Chilkat v9.5.0 supporting the arm64 and x86_64 iOS architectures is available: http://www.chilkatsoft.com/preRelease/chilkat-9.5.0-ios.zip The static libraries are provided differently than before. Chilkat provides static libs for each architecture slice: i386 (for the simulator), armv7, armv7s, arm64, and armv6 (for older versions of iOS). The libs are located in the directories as shown here: lib/i386/libchilkatIos.a lib/x86_64/libchilkatIos.a lib/armv6/libchilkatIos.a lib/armv7/libchilkatIos.a […]
Chilkat provides API’s that are identical across a variety of different programming languages. One difficulty in doing this is in handling strings. Different programming languages pass strings in different ways. In some programming languages, such as Python or C/C++, a “string” is simply a sequence of bytes terminated by a null. (I’m referring to “multibyte” strings, not Unicode (utf-16) strings. […]
When an email is sent, it should contain no “Received” header fields. Each time the email is processed by a mail server along the delivery route, a new Received header field is prepended to the email. The very first Received header is added by the SMTP server that the SMTP client (such as your app or a program such as […]