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. […]
Question: How can I set the type of the transfer (ascii or binary) in SFTP ? In FTP for instance, there is a SetTypeAscii method. Answer: SFTP is Secure File Transfer over SSH. It is not the FTP protocol. There is no similarity or relationship between FTP and SFTP. Therefore, concepts such as “transfer mode” […]
Question: I am trying your component to check if I can integrate it well in an application I need to transfer and manage files using SFTP over SSH. I’ve examined the samples and there’s one thing I’d like to do and cannot find it. Is it possible to read remote folder content but limited only […]
Question: When trying to delete a file using SFTP with this line: success = sftp.RemoveFile(“out/” & fileObj.Filename) we get the error listed below: ChilkatLog: RemoveFile: DllDate: Feb 8 2009 UnlockPrefix: Anything for 30-day trial Username: IUSR_ABCD Component: ActiveX SshVersion: SSH-2.0-1.36 sshlib: GlobalScape SftpVersion: 3 hcCurDate: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:23:01 +1100 hcExpire: 4/2009 filename: out/abc123.edi […]
Question: I’m getting error after sftp.OpenFile() call OpenFile: DllDate: Nov 27 2008 UnlockPrefix: Anything for 30-day trial Username: chilkat Component: .NET 2.0 SshVersion: SSH-2.0-5.3.3.56 SSH Tectia Server SftpVersion: 3 hcCurDate: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:53:46 +0200 hcExpire: 1/2009 filename: sftp_test.txt access: writeOnly createDisposition: openOrCreate v3Flags: 0xa Sent FXP_OPEN [SSH] Received IGNORE message StatusCode: 3 ErrorMessage: […]
SFTP is not in any way related to FTP. FTP is the “File Transfer Protocol” whereas SFTP is a subsystem of the SSH protocol. SFTP is a protocol for file transfer over SSH. (Not to be confused with “FTPS”, which is the FTP protocol over SSL/TLS.) Most people familiar with FTP know about transfer modes: […]
