Chilkat Dynamic Shared Object (DLL) API Pre-Release

There has been a long-time need for the Chilkat API in the form of a  DLL (on Windows) or a .so (on Linux/Mac OS X).   On the Windows platform, this would be the same as how the Window Platform SDK is provided in DLL form.  The “Chilkat DSO” API, where “DSO” stands for Dynamic Shared Object, is a functional API […]

FTP Timeouts on Large Files

Here is a description of the problem from the FileZilla documentation at http://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Network_Configuration#Timeouts_on_large_files A few possible workarounds are described below. Timeouts on large files If you can transfer small files without any issues, but transfers of larger files end with a timeout, a broken router and/or firewall exists between the client and the server and is causing a problem. As […]

Chilkat v9.4.0 Release Notes

(The version previous to v9.4.0 was v9.3.2.) (backward compatibility) Removed the deprecated CkCrypt and CkFtp C++ classes.  (CkCrypt2 and CkFtp2 have been the primary C++ classes for encryption and FTP for many years.) (backward compatibility) Removed the deprecated Chilkat.Crypt and Chilkat.Ftp .NET classes.  (The primary Chilkat .NET classes for encryption and FTP have been Chilkat.Crypt2 and Chilkat.Ftp2 for many years.) […]

SoSndBuf and SoRcvBuf Properties

Beginning with Chilkat v9.4.0, two new TCP socket performance properties, SoSndBuf and SoRcvBuf, will be added to each of the following Chilkat components/libs: FTP2, HTTP, SFTP, SSH, SshTunnel, IMAP, and MailMan (POP3/SMTP). These properties allow for the underlying socket’s send and receive buffer sizes to be set. These are socket options associated with the setsockopt system call (see http://linux.die.net/man/2/setsockopt ) […]

Twitter OAuth Example to Post Update (Tweet)

The OAuth functionality shown in this example is available in Chilkat v9.4.0 to be released in mid-December 2012. Pre-releases are available upon request by sending email to support@chilkatsoft.com. ASP: Twitter OAuth — Tweet to Your Own Account SQL Server: Twitter OAuth — Tweet to Your Own Account C#: Twitter OAuth — Tweet to Your Own Account C++: Twitter OAuth — […]