Visual FoxPro

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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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loSocket
LOCAL lnBTls
LOCAL lnMaxWaitMs
LOCAL lcEncoded

lnSuccess = 0

loSocket = CreateObject('Chilkat.Socket')

*  Connect to the server using TLS.
lnBTls = 1
lnMaxWaitMs = 5000
lnSuccess = loSocket.Connect("example.com",5000,lnBTls,lnMaxWaitMs)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loSocket.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loSocket
    CANCEL
ENDIF

*  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.
lcEncoded = loSocket.ReceiveBytesENC("base64")
IF (loSocket.LastMethodSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loSocket.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loSocket
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? lcEncoded

RELEASE loSocket