Poll a Socket for Available Data

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Demonstrates Socket.PollDataAvailable, which performs a nonblocking check for readable activity and returns whether data or another read-ready condition is present.

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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;
    }

    //  Perform a nonblocking check for readable data.  Returns true when data or another read-ready
    //  condition is present, and false when nothing is immediately available.
    var bAvailable = socket.PollDataAvailable();
    if (bAvailable !== true) {
        console.log("No data is immediately available.");
    }
    else {
        console.log("Data is available to read.");
    }


}

chilkatExample();