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Send a String over a Socket

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Demonstrates Socket.SendString, which encodes a string using StringCharset and sends the resulting bytes over the connected socket. No delimiter, terminator, or length prefix is added.

Background. Text send and receive operations encode and decode bytes using the StringCharset property. For plain ASCII or UTF-8 protocols, setting StringCharset to utf-8 is a safe default.

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Use ChilkatAx-win32.pkg

Procedure Test
    Boolean iSuccess
    Handle hoSocket
    Boolean iBTls
    Integer iMaxWaitMs
    String sMessage
    String sTemp1

    Move False To iSuccess

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatSocket)) To hoSocket
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoSocket))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoSocket
    End

    //  Connect to the server using TLS.  The 3rd argument enables the TLS handshake after the TCP
    //  connection succeeds; the 4th is the maximum time to wait, in milliseconds.
    Move True To iBTls
    Move 5000 To iMaxWaitMs
    Get ComConnect Of hoSocket "example.com" 5000 iBTls iMaxWaitMs To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess = False) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoSocket To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    //  StringCharset controls the character encoding used when sending and receiving text.
    Set ComStringCharset Of hoSocket To "utf-8"

    //  Encode the string using StringCharset and send the resulting bytes.  No delimiter, terminator, or
    //  length prefix is added; the exact bytes are sent.  This example sends a command for a simple
    //  application-defined text protocol.
    Move "STATUS" + (character(13)) + (character(10)) To sMessage
    Get ComSendString Of hoSocket sMessage To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess = False) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoSocket To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    Showln "Message sent."


End_Procedure