✨ 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 […]
✨ 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 — […]
The main features of this release focus on Chilkat’s Ai class, enabling interactive AI response streaming directly into embedded desktop application browsers. It supports Azure, custom base URLs for OpenAI-compatible providers, and local providers like Ollama. ✨ New Features Ai Real-Time Streaming AI Responses to Embedded Browsers in Desktop Apps — Stream AI responses […]
Previous Version: Chilkat v11.1.0 Release Notes The main addition in v11.2.0 is the Chilkat.Ai class, and the Chilkat.StringBuilder.MarkdownToHtml method. Ai: The Chilkat AI class provides a unified API for interacting with different AI providers: OpenAI, Google, Claude, xAI, Perplexity, and DeepSeek. It provides functionality for conversation management, multimodal inputs, and streaming mode. Markdown to HTML […]
Starting with the v10.0.0 release (end of September 2024), Chilkat moves to standard semantic versioning. Prior to this release, for various technical reasons, Chilkat was stuck with versions 9.5.0.xx, where only xx changed. For this first leap to semantic versioning, where the major version changes to 10 (from 9), there are no backward incompatible changes. […]
If an HTTP GET works in a browser, but does not work from your application, then check to see if your site uses Cloudfare with the Browser Integrity Check turned on. If so, then for testing purposes, temporarily turn BIC off, and try again. The Browser Integrity Check (BIC) feature in Cloudflare is a security […]
Question: A particular REST/Web API returns a cookie. I need to capture this cookie and use it when sending subsequent POSTs. For example, this is the CURL statement to login and save the response cookie(s) to a file. curl -c cookies.txt -H “Content-Type: application/json” -X POST -d ‘{“username”:”user”,”password”:”pass”}’ http://192.168.1.1/api/login Then I need to use the […]
Question: I’m using VB6. Can you tell me how I would use your software to duplicate this VB6 code snippet? I can’t seem to find a way to set headers, use OPEN or SEND. Any help would be appreciated. ‘ Specify the API URL URL = “…” ‘ I have the proper URL ‘ Create […]
There are two possible ways to write the code. (1) Upload the Audio File to Google Cloud Storage First write code to upload the audio file to Google Cloud Storage. For example, see: AutoIt Upload File to Google Cloud Storage C Upload File to Google Cloud Storage Chilkat2-Python Upload File to Google Cloud Storage C++ […]
Question I need to get a token: URL TEST : “https://apitest.dtes.mh.gob.sv/seguridad/auth” Method : POST Parameters Headers Content-type : application/x-www-form-urlencoded Body user (string) pwd (string) Answer See the online tutorial explaining common HTTP requests at Format of Common HTTP Requests. Specifically, look here: https://www.chilkatsoft.com/http_post_url_encoded.asp
If you see the error lines “The connection already exists, as far as we know..” followed by “socketError: Broken pipe” in any LastErrorText for a method that sends an HTTP request, it means the following: The server replied to the previous request without a “Connection: close” header, thus allowing the client to keep the connection […]
This is a note about the pitfalls of progress monitoring HTTP requests sent from an installed app (i.e. not web app running in a browser). Ideally, we’d like to know how long an HTTP POST is going to take, and update the percent-completed visually so that when it reaches 100% the operation is neatly finished […]
Question: I am having a problem identifying read timeouts from sites. I set ConnectTimeout and ReadTimeout properties of the HTTP object. When the site fails to respond within ReadTimeout, the following happens: PText still returns 0 PText returns a response object Reading of StatusCode and StatusText properties of the response object is successful Reading of […]
This blog post describes a general procedure for writing code that calls an HTTP/HTTPS POST REST API and parses the JSON or XML response. Step 1: Form the CURL Command A POST request in the form of a CURL command will look like this: curl -X POST https://test-api.service.hmrc.gov.uk/organisations/vat/123456789/returns \ -H “Accept: application/vnd.hmrc.1.0+json” \ -H “Content-Type: […]
What is the difference between an HTTP Upload and a SOAP Request? An upload is an HTTP request that uses the multipart/form-data content-type. (All HTTP requests and responses are MIME, and the format of a given request is determined by the content-type.) A SOAP request, on the other hand, has a content-type of text/xml, which […]
