Perl

Send Encoded Bytes over a Socket

Demonstrates Socket.SendBytesENC, which decodes text using a named encoding (such as base64) and sends the resulting binary bytes.

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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use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

my $socket = Chilkat2::Socket->new;

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

# Decode the text using the named encoding, then send the resulting binary bytes.  Here the base64
# text "SGVsbG8=" decodes to the bytes for "Hello".
$success = $socket->SendBytesENC('SGVsbG8=', 'base64');
if (!$success) {
    print $socket->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print "Bytes sent.\n";