Chilkat v11.6.0 / v11.6.1 Release Notes
See Release Notes for Versions 11.6.0 and 11.6.1
Chilkat v11.5.0 Release Notes
✨ New Features HttpCurl A new Chilkat class has been added: HttpCurl The Chilkat.HttpCurl class executes curl commands and can automatically resolve dependent values needed by a request. Variables such as {{access_token}}, {{site_id}}, or {{drive_id}} may appear in URLs, headers, query parameters, or request bodies. If a variable is not yet known, HttpCurl builds […]
Chilkat v11.4.0 Release Notes
✨ New Features Js A new Chilkat class has been added: Js is a minimal, standards-compliant JavaScript engine designed to embed JavaScript inside applications with very small footprint and fast startup. It executes JavaScript code inside an application without requiring a browser or large runtime. See About the Chilkat.Js JavaScript Engine Ai Provider — […]
SOLVED: 425 Unable to build data connection: Operation not permitted
This error message is specific to the ProFTPd server. A Chilkat customer found this error within the LastErrorText after trying to upload or download a file, or retrieve a directory listing: 425 Unable to build data connection: Operation not permitted The latest ProFTPd server has a configuration setting that by default requires SSL/TLS sessions to […]
How to Register an ActiveX DLL using regsvr32
(Also see the ActiveX DLL Registration Tutorial) The first step is to determine if you need to register the ActiveX DLL compiled for 32-bit or 64-bit. If your computer is 32-bit, the choice is obviously 32-bit. Let’s start with it: How to Register a 32-bit DLL on a 32-bit Windows operating system Using a text […]
Handling Accented Characters in Filenames w/ IIS 7.5 FTP
To handle accented characters in filenames correctly, the FTP client must know what character encoding is used to represent these characters (such as utf-8, iso-8859-1, etc.). The Ftp2.DirListingCharset property indicates the character encoding to be used when interpreting the bytes of a filename (in a directory listing). By default, it is set to “ANSI”, which […]
Chilkat 9.1.2 Release Notes
FileAccess: Changed “int” arguments to “unsigned int”. bool FileOpen(String *filename, unsigned int accessMode, unsigned int shareMode, unsigned int createDisp, unsigned int attr); RSA: If the result of a signature was a binary value such that the leading byte(s) were 0, then these NULL bytes were not included in the encoded output (such as for Base64, […]
Chilkat Java library now available for MAC OS X
The Chilkat Java library is now available for MAC OS X. For the download link and more information, see http://www.chilkatsoft.com/installJavaMacOSX.asp Chilkat will soon release MAC OS X compatible builds for Perl, Python, and Ruby. Following that, builds for the IOS (IPhone) will be released, along with Objective-C/C++ native libraries for both MAC OS X and […]
FTP2 ActiveX Events
The Chilkat FTP2 ActiveX provides the following event callbacks: ‘ IMPORTANT: For all callbacks, arguments named “skip” or “abort” are output-only arguments. ‘ These arguments may be set to 1 within the callback to either skip a ‘ particular file upload/download, or abort the entire operation. Dim WithEvents ftp As ChilkatFtp2 ‘ Called just before […]
Chilkat C/C++ libraries now available for MAC OS X
The Chilkat C/C++ libraries are now available for MAC OS X. For the download link and more information, see http://www.chilkatsoft.com/installMacOSX.asp Chilkat will soon release MAC OS X compatible builds for Java, Perl, Python, and Ruby. Following that, builds for the IOS (IPhone) will be released, along with Objective-C/C++ native libraries for both MAC OS X […]
Verify / Test a Zip Archive
Question: I need an easy way to verify that a zip downloaded, i.e test it, preferably without actually unzipping it to a directory. I couldn’t find any method like that – the files are small enough in the zip I could probably unzip them into memory. Is that pretty much the only way to do […]
Chilkat 9.1.1 Release Notes
Socket: Added the ReceivedCount property. It always increases to reflect the number of bytes received via any method. It may be reset to 0 by the application at any point. HTTP: Changed ClearEventLog method name to ClearBgEventLog MailMan: Changed default values of MailMan.EmbedCertChain and MailMan.IncludeRootCert to True (or 1 for ActiveX). Spider: Changed CkSpider::GetDomain(url) to […]
Download SFTP Files Indirectly through a Web Site
Question: I am doing a project that requires a web site to list files from an SFTP server and allow the visitor to download them. Following the examples on your site, it was very easy to list the files. However, you have no example of downloading a file to the user, only to the local […]