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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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Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

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.

set dkim = CreateObject("Chilkat.Dkim")

'  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
    outFile.WriteLine(dkim.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine("Public key prefetched from DNS and cached.")

outFile.Close