Receive a Bounded String from a Socket

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Demonstrates Socket.ReceiveStringMaxN, which receives and decodes text like ReceiveString but reads at most a given number of input bytes.

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");
#  Send a request using a simple application-defined text protocol in which each message ends with a
#  CRLF.
$command = "STATUS\r\n";
$success = $socket->SendString($command);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $socket->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  Receive and decode text like ReceiveString, but read at most the given number of input bytes.
#  The limit is measured in bytes, not Unicode characters.
$firstChunk = $socket->receiveStringMaxN(64);
if ($socket->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {
    print $socket->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print $firstChunk . "\r\n";