Dart

Prefetch a DKIM Public Key from DNS

Demonstrates the Chilkat Dkim.PrefetchPublicKey method, which retrieves a DKIM public key from DNS and caches it for a specific selector and domain. The arguments are the selector and the domain. The TXT lookup is made at selector._domainkey.domain.

Background: DkimVerify already fetches the key from DNS on demand, so prefetching is about when the lookup happens: doing it up front lets you separate a potentially slow network step from the verification itself, warm the cache before a batch of messages from the same domain, or confirm the key is publishable before relying on it. After a successful prefetch, verification of a matching signature uses the cached key with no further DNS traffic.

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import 'package:chilkat/chilkat.dart';

void main() {
  // Demonstrates the Dkim.PrefetchPublicKey method, which retrieves a DKIM public key from DNS and
  // caches it for a specific selector and domain.  The 1st argument is the selector and the 2nd is
  // the domain.

  final dkim = CkDkim();

  // Retrieve the public key from the DNS TXT record at selector._domainkey.domain and cache it.
  // A later DkimVerify for the same selector and domain then uses the cached key.
  try {
    dkim.prefetchPublicKey('myselector', 'example.com');
  } on ChilkatException catch (e) {
    print(e.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  print('Public key prefetched from DNS and cached.');
}