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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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var
success: Integer;
dkim: TChilkatDkim;

begin
success := 0;

//  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.

dkim := TChilkatDkim.Create(Self);

//  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.
success := dkim.PrefetchPublicKey('myselector','example.com');
if (success = 0) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(dkim.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;
Memo1.Lines.Add('Public key prefetched from DNS and cached.');