Accept Connection on Socket

Demonstrates how to create a TCP/IP socket, listen on a port, accept an incoming connection, and send a "Hello World" message to the client.

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Dim listenSocket As New Chilkat.Socket()

Dim success As Boolean
success = listenSocket.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
If (success <> true) Then
    MsgBox("Failed to unlock component")
    Exit Sub
End If


'  Bind to a port and listen for incoming connections:
'  This example will listen at port 5555 and allows for a backlog
'  of 25 pending connection requests.
success = listenSocket.BindAndListen(5555,25)
If (success <> true) Then
    MsgBox(listenSocket.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


'  Get the next incoming connection
'  Wait a maximum of 20 seconds (20000 millisec)
Dim connectedSocket As Chilkat.Socket
connectedSocket = listenSocket.AcceptNextConnection(20000)
If (connectedSocket Is Nothing ) Then
    MsgBox(listenSocket.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


'  Set maximum timeouts for reading an writing (in millisec)
connectedSocket.MaxReadIdleMs = 10000
connectedSocket.MaxSendIdleMs = 10000

'  Send a "Hello World!" message to the client:
success = connectedSocket.SendString("Hello World!")
If (success <> true) Then
    MsgBox(connectedSocket.LastErrorText)

    Exit Sub
End If


'  Close the connection with the client.
'  Wait a max of 20 seconds (20000 millsec)
connectedSocket.Close(20000)

MsgBox("success!")