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Question: SendMime requires a from and recipients address string, but the MIME message contains both . The message I receive from the SendMime seems to ignore the addresses in the call and uses the one in the MIME. So why require a from and recipient address? Answer: The SMTP protocol works like this: 1) A client connects to an SMTP […]
Question: I need to connect to an ftp server and have to use the following command: ftp://username:password@hosname That means I’m not able to use the standard connection (first connect to host, then enter username and then password). Is this possible using the Chilkat FTP2 component? Answer: Yes. There are a number of different FTP proxy methods used by different types […]
I’ve read information on your site about how to get the content at a URL and save it as an XML document. Below is a portion of the code to give you an idea of what I am referring to. String html = http.QuickGetStr(http://www.hocuspocus.com); … htmlToXml.WriteScriptToFile(xml, “out.xml”, “iso-8859-1”); My question is this: What if one cannot directly access the URL […]
If you receive this error message from IIS7 on Vista: An error occurred on the server when processing the URL. Please contact the system administrator Do the following at the IIS Manager to get a more meaningful message: 1. Select the web site from the tree on the left and click on the “ASP” icon 2. Expand the “Debugging Properties” […]
The FTP2 component’s SyncLocalTree method downloads an entire directory tree from an FTP server to the local filesystem. There are several modes of operation: mode=0: Download all files mode=1: Download all files that do not exist on the local filesystem. mode=2: Download newer or non-existant files. mode=3: Download only newer files. If a file does not already exist on the […]
Question: We want to use the 64-bit version of the Chilkat email functionality, but we get a could not load error message (see below for full error) when i use the v8.5.0 release of the Chilkat library. This also happens when i use the 32-bit version. Is it possible that the license key is linked to a specific version of […]
The IE Proxy settings may be found in the CURRENT_USER registry hive at this path: /Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Internet Settings/ProxyServer and /Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Internet Settings/ProxyEnable ProxyEnable will have a value of 1 if the proxy is enabled. Otherwise it will be 0.
The Chilkat FileAccess ActiveX is a freeware component that may be used to read and write binary files in VBScript, ASP, VB6, etc. Here are some sample code fragments: VBScript ‘ Download the Chilkat FileAccess ActiveX (freeware) from here: ‘ http://www.chilkatsoft.com/download/FileAccess.zip set fac = CreateObject(“Chilkat.FileAccess”) ‘ Read an entire file as binary data (returns Variant containing byte array) byteData = […]
This error occurs if RSA encrypted data using OAEP padding is decrypted with the assumption that PKCS v1.5 padding was used. To solve the problem, set the OaepPadding property = true prior to decrypting. … RSA_decrypt: KeyType: Private InputSize: 128 Padding: PKCS v1.5 ModulusBitLen: 1024 Invalid PKCS v1.5 padding header (1) FoundBlockType: 197 ExpectingBlockType: 2 …
Here are examples for creating the HTTP Authorization header for Amazon S3 requests: ASP: HMAC SHA1 for Amazon S3 SQL Server: HMAC SHA1 for Amazon S3 C#: HMAC SHA1 for Amazon S3 Delphi: HMAC SHA1 for Amazon S3 Visual FoxPro: HMAC SHA1 for Amazon S3 Java: HMAC SHA1 for Amazon S3 Perl: HMAC SHA1 for Amazon S3 PHP: HMAC SHA1 […]