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Close a Socket Connection

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Demonstrates Socket.Close, which gracefully terminates and closes the current TCP, TLS, or SSH channel connection. The argument bounds how long to wait for clean shutdown processing.

Background. A value of 0 waits indefinitely for the clean close, while a positive value waits up to that many milliseconds.

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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

$socket = chilkat::CkSocket->new();

#  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.
$bTls = 1;
$maxWaitMs = 5000;
$success = $socket->Connect("example.com",5000,$bTls,$maxWaitMs);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $socket->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  StringCharset controls the character encoding used when sending and receiving text.
$socket->put_StringCharset("utf-8");

#  Gracefully close the current TCP, TLS, or SSH channel connection.  The argument is the maximum
#  number of milliseconds to wait for clean shutdown processing (0 waits indefinitely).
$success = $socket->Close(1000);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $socket->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "Connection closed." . "\r\n";