Perl

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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Perl

use chilkat();

$success = 0;

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

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

#  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.
$encoded = $socket->receiveBytesENC("base64");
if ($socket->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {
    print $socket->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print $encoded . "\r\n";