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Receive Bytes as Encoded Text from a Socket

Demonstrates Socket.ReceiveBytesENC, which receives one delivery of binary data and returns it encoded as text using a named encoding.

Background. The ENC methods move raw binary data to and from printable text using a named encoding such as base64 or hex, which is convenient for logging or for handling binary data as strings.

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Dim success As Boolean = False

Dim socket As ChilkatSocket
socket.Initialize("socket")

'  Connect to the server using TLS.
Dim bTls As Boolean = True
Dim maxWaitMs As Int = 5000
success = socket.Connect("example.com", 5000, bTls, maxWaitMs)
If success = False Then
    Log(socket.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


'  Receive one delivery of binary data and return it encoded as text using the named encoding.  This
'  is convenient for logging or transporting binary data as printable text.
Dim encoded As String = socket.ReceiveBytesENC("base64")
If socket.LastMethodSuccess = False Then
    Log(socket.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

Log(encoded)