B4X

Resolve the FTP Password from OS Secure Storage

Demonstrates the EnableSecrets property, which lets password properties contain a secret specification beginning with !! that Chilkat resolves from the operating system's secure storage instead of using the literal text.

Background: This is a cleaner alternative to reading a secret yourself and assigning it: with EnableSecrets on, you set the password to a reference like !!my_secret_name and Chilkat fetches the real value from the platform's secure store. The literal password never appears in your source or configuration, which is exactly the practice recommended throughout these examples.

Chilkat B4X Downloads

Download Chilkat for B4X

B4X

Dim success As Boolean = False

Dim ftp As ChilkatFtp2
ftp.Initialize("ftp")

ftp.Hostname = "ftp.example.com"
ftp.Username = "myFtpLogin"

'  EnableSecrets (default False) allows password properties to contain a "secret specification"
'  beginning with "!!" that Chilkat resolves from the operating system's secure storage instead
'  of using the literal text.
ftp.EnableSecrets = True

'  Provide a secret specification rather than a literal password.  Chilkat looks up the named
'  secret in the OS secure store.
ftp.Password = "!!my_ftp_password_secret"

success = ftp.Connect
If success = False Then
    Log(ftp.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

Log("Connected using a password from OS secure storage.")

success = ftp.Disconnect
If success = False Then
    Log(ftp.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If