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Get Received SSH Bytes into a BinData

Demonstrates the Chilkat Ssh.GetReceivedBd method, which appends the bytes currently in a channel's normal receive buffer to a BinData. The first argument is the channel number and the second is the BinData. The channel receive buffer is cleared afterward; existing bytes in the BinData are preserved.

Background: When the remote command emits binary — a tarball, an image, a compressed stream — decoding it as text through a charset would corrupt it. BinData keeps the bytes exactly as received, so you can write them to a file, hash them, or hand them to another API. Like the StringBuilder form it appends, making it easy to accumulate across successive reads. On failure the BinData is left unchanged.

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function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

    //  Demonstrates the Ssh.GetReceivedBd method, which appends the bytes currently in a channel's
    //  receive buffer to a BinData.  The 1st argument is the channel number and the 2nd is the
    //  BinData.  The channel receive buffer is cleared afterward.

    var ssh = new chilkat.Ssh();

    var sshPort = 22;
    success = ssh.Connect("ssh.example.com",sshPort);
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(ssh.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    //  Normally you would not hard-code the password in source.  You should instead obtain it
    //  from an interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
    var password = "mySshPassword";

    success = ssh.AuthenticatePw("mySshLogin",password);
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(ssh.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    var channelNum = ssh.OpenSessionChannel();
    if (channelNum < 0) {
        console.log(ssh.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    //  Run a command whose output may be binary.
    success = ssh.SendReqExec(channelNum,"cat /usr/bin/hostname");
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(ssh.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    //  IMPORTANT: Set a read timeout.  ReadTimeoutMs defaults to 0, which means no limit -- without
    //  it, this call waits forever if the server never sends channel close.
    ssh.ReadTimeoutMs = 15000;

    success = ssh.ChannelReceiveToClose(channelNum);
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(ssh.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    //  Append the raw received bytes to a BinData.  Existing bytes in the BinData are preserved.
    var bd = new chilkat.BinData();
    success = ssh.GetReceivedBd(channelNum,bd);
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(ssh.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    console.log("Bytes received: " + bd.NumBytes);

    ssh.Disconnect();

}

chilkatExample();