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Question: Looks to me like sendmail is returning true before the message has been sent but I’m sure you’ll tell me that there is no way this can happen… Answer: The SendEmail method returned true after the email was successfully handed over to the SMTP server. When the SMTP server decides to actually forward the email onward to its destination […]
Question: Do you have any examples of using the Chilkat Encryption component with X509 Digital Certificates to encrypt and decrypt data ? Answer: To use an X509 certificate, the CryptAlgorithm is set to “PKI” and you set the certificate by calling SetEncryptCert. The encryption algorithm may be controlled by using a Chilkat CSP object and calling SetCSP. Here’s a quick […]
Question: Does the Crypt2 Component support 3DES ?? Setting “CryptAlgorithm” to “3des” or “des” does not change the encoded output when the “EncryptStringENC” method is used. Answer: Yes. The CryptAlgorithm should be set to “DES” (case-insensitive). The KeyLength property determines if it is DES (56 or 64), 3DES (112 or 128) or 2-Key TDES (168 or 192). Each byte in […]
Question: My HTML page requires authentication to access. If I try to download it with Chilkat MHT, I get the following text in the mht.LastErrorText property: ChilkatLog: GetMHT: version: 5.2.1 DllDate: Sep 12 2008 Username: *** Component: .NET 2.0 url: http://***.aspx root_url: http://*** base_url: http://*** url: http://***.aspx Not yet connected to web server. Need to establish connection. httpServer: *** port: […]
You may see the following message in the Chilkat HTTP component’s LastErrorText property: “Not yet connected to web server. Need to establish connection.” The presence of content in LastErrorText does not indicate an error. Errors are generally indicated by either false/0 return values, or NULL reference return values. The LastErrorText (or LastErrorHtml / LastErrorXml) will contain information about what transpired […]
This post clarifies the meaning of “child”. An XML node may have 0 or more child nodes. A child node is a direct descendent of the parent (i.e. it is one level below the parent node). Methods such as NumChildrenHavingTag will return the number of direct descendents (i.e. nodes that are exactly one level below the calling node) that match […]
Debugging Hint: In any programming language, in any environment, regardless of whether it’s a Chilkat error message or something from Microsoft, if you don’t understand the error message try Googling it. For example: Type this into Google: “Object Variable or With Block Variable Not Set” (without the quotes) The 1st result provides all the information you’ll need to know about […]
The Chilkat HTTP component’s FollowRedirects property controls whether 301 and 302 HTTP response statuses (i.e. redirect responses) are automatically followed. Pages returning a normal 200 HTTP response status with a META refresh embedded within the HTML are not automatically followed. More about META Refresh: Meta refresh is a method of instructing a web browser to automatically refresh the current web […]
Question: I spoke to you earlier this morning about a problem I’m having with using the HTTP component, and logging into Amazon. Based on the response I’m getting I am indeed successfully logging on since it shows my name at the top of the page. However it shows me an error message about cookies. I do in fact know that […]
New examples demonstrating how to create a Zip archive using Unicode filenames: ASP: Create Zip with utf-8 Filenames (Unicode filenames) SQL Server: Create Zip with utf-8 Filenames (Unicode filenames) C#: Create Zip with utf-8 Filenames (Unicode filenames) C++: Create Zip with utf-8 Filenames (Unicode filenames) MFC: Create Zip with utf-8 Filenames (Unicode filenames) C: Create Zip with utf-8 Filenames (Unicode […]