✨ 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. […]
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 […]
This is a summary of the steps I’m taking to debug the following problem: I am trying to login using Chilkat HTTP to this site: Startseite and after the login, there is a 302 redirect. After the redirect, the session is lost. I believe it could be another cookie related issue. 1. Make sure I’m […]
This example demonstrates how to use the new Chilkat HTTP SessionLogFilename property to log exact HTTP requests and responses to a file. This can help in debugging… ASP: HTTP Session Logging SQL Server: HTTP Session Logging C#: HTTP Session Logging C++: HTTP Session Logging MFC: HTTP Session Logging C: HTTP Session Logging Delphi: HTTP Session […]
Question: Using the HTTP component I’m connecting and downloading an RSS feed via a Proxy server (fantastic!!). Trouble is – the proxy is caching yesterday’s feed and I need to force the proxy to refresh it’s contents (that’s the proxy on my network – not the Chilkat local cache). How can I tel the HTTP […]
Demonstrates how to save non-English strings to a file using Chilkat.FileAccess: set http = CreateObject(“Chilkat.Http”) ‘ Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days. success = http.UnlockComponent(“Anything for 30-day trial”) If (success <> 1) Then MsgBox http.LastErrorText WScript.Quit End If ‘ Send the HTTP GET and return the content in a string. html = […]
ASP: SMTP using HTTP Proxy SQL Server: SMTP using HTTP Proxy C#: SMTP using HTTP Proxy C++: SMTP using HTTP Proxy MFC: SMTP using HTTP Proxy C: SMTP using HTTP Proxy Delphi: SMTP using HTTP Proxy Visual FoxPro: SMTP using HTTP Proxy Java: SMTP using HTTP Proxy Perl: SMTP using HTTP Proxy PHP: SMTP using […]
ASP: POP3 using HTTP Proxy SQL Server: POP3 using HTTP Proxy C#: POP3 using HTTP Proxy C++: POP3 using HTTP Proxy MFC: POP3 using HTTP Proxy C: POP3 using HTTP Proxy Delphi: POP3 using HTTP Proxy Visual FoxPro: POP3 using HTTP Proxy Java: POP3 using HTTP Proxy Perl: POP3 using HTTP Proxy PHP: POP3 using […]
This blog post shows how to monitor the progress of HTTP uploads and downloads in C++. The first step is to create a C++ callback class that derives from the CkHttpProgress base class. You’ll be overriding one or more of the callback methods. For example: class MyHttpProgress : public CkHttpProgress { public: MyHttpProgress(void) { } […]
Here is an example: Dim WithEvents http As Chilkat.Http Private Sub http_OnPercentDone(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal args As Chilkat.PercentDoneEventArgs) Handles http.OnPercentDone ProgressBar1.Value = args.PercentDone End Sub Private Sub HttpDownloadTest() http = New Chilkat.Http() Dim success As Boolean ‘ Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days. success = http.UnlockComponent(“Anything for 30-day trial”) If (success […]
To force a web server to send a fresh copy (not a cached copy) of the requested document, add a “Pragma: non-cache” HTTP header to the request. If sending a HTTP GET request via these methods: QuickGet, QuickGetStr, Download, etc., then add the Pragma header by calling httpObject.SetRequestHeader(“Pragma”,”no-cache”) prior to sending the GET. If the […]
