Check Whether a Socket Is Writable

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Demonstrates Socket.CheckWriteable, which waits for the connected socket to become writable. It returns 1 if writable, 0 if it did not become writable before the timeout, or -1 on error.

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function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

    var socket = new chilkat.Socket();

    //  Connect to the server using TLS.
    var bTls = true;
    var maxWaitMs = 5000;
    success = socket.Connect("example.com",5000,bTls,maxWaitMs);
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(socket.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    //  Wait up to 5 seconds for the socket to become writable.  Returns 1 if writable, 0 if it did not
    //  become writable before the timeout, or -1 on error.
    var writable = socket.CheckWriteable(5000);
    if (writable < 0) {
        console.log(socket.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    if (writable !== 1) {
        console.log("The socket did not become writable before the timeout.");
        return;
    }

    console.log("The socket is writable.");

}

chilkatExample();