Asynchronous HTTP

Notice: The functionality described here is deprecated and replaced by a newer model for asynchronous method calls. The newer model was introduced in Chilkat v9.5.0.52, and is identified by methods having names ending in “Async” which return a task object. The following example demonstrates the older, deprecated asynchronous HTTP functionality that allows for any HTTP method to be run asynchronously […]

Asynchronous Sockets

This blog post is an attempt to explain the concepts of asynchronous socket programming using the Chilkat Socket class/component.   There are five types of socket operations that may occur asynchronously: Socket read. Socket write. Connect to remote hostname:port Accept connection from client DNS lookup A synchronous socket operation is easy to understand.  If you call ReceiveBytes, the method returns only […]