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. […]
This new version includes the following updates/fixes: Added the TrustedRoots class to allow for programss to globally specify a specific set of trusted root CA certificates for PKCS7 certificate signature verification and for SSL/TLS server certificate trust. Added the RequireSslCertVerify property to Http, IMAP, Socket, and MHT. Added the CrcFile and CrcBytes methods to the […]
The internal Chilkat SSL/TLS implementation now supports the TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA and TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA cipher suites. These allow for perfect forward secrecy. Note: This is implemented on the client-side for all protocols using SSL/TLS. The SSL/TLS client provides the server with a list of algorithms it supports, and it is the server that decides which is to be […]
Chilkat does not use OpenSSL and is not affected by the Heartbleed bug.
If this FTP server response is seen in the LastErrorText, it means that the SSL/TLS connection requires a client-side certificate with private key. Prior to connecting, the client-side certificate should be specified by calling the SetSslClientCert, or SetSslClientCertPfx. Make sure to check the return value of these methods for success/failure. If the SetSslClientCert* method fails, […]
Problem: An SSL/TLS connection failed and the LastErrorText contains “SEC_E_INTERNAL_ERROR”, such as in the error text below: (See cause solution below) ChilkatLog: Connect: DllDate: Dec 4 2009 UnlockPrefix: **** Username: **** Component: .NET 2.0 objectId: 1 hostname: *.*.*.* port: 443 ssl: 1 maxWaitMs: 20000 windowsAccount: **** ClientCertDN: **** protocol: default An existing connection was forcibly […]
This blog post is here to clarify a very common misunderstanding. The various Chilkat components that provide SSL/TLS support also provide an option that allows a client-side digital certificate to be used with the secure connection. A certificate identifies you to the server. In 99% of cases you do not need a client certificate. It […]
If you open a DOS prompt and telnet to an SMTP server (typically port 25 for non-SSL, port 465 for SSL), you should get a human-readable printable-text “HELLO” message from the non-SSL port, but binary SSL-handshake protocol gobbly-gook from an implicit SSL port. For example: > telnet mail.chilkatsoft.com 25 220 mail.chilkatsoft.com ESMTP MailEnable Service, Version: […]
