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Send a Single Byte over a Socket

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Demonstrates Socket.SendByte, which sends one byte whose value is in the range 0 through 255.

Background. Fixed-size integers and length prefixes are common building blocks for application-defined binary protocols. Byte order is selectable, with big-endian being network byte order.

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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;
}

#  Send a single byte.  The value must be in the range 0 through 255.
$success = $socket->SendByte(65);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $socket->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "Byte sent." . "\r\n";