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.

integer li_rc
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_Socket
integer li_BTls
integer li_MaxWaitMs
string ls_Command
string ls_FirstChunk

li_Success = 0

loo_Socket = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Socket.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Socket")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Socket
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if

//  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.
li_BTls = 1
li_MaxWaitMs = 5000
li_Success = loo_Socket.Connect("example.com",5000,li_BTls,li_MaxWaitMs)
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Socket.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Socket
    return
end if

//  StringCharset controls the character encoding used when sending and receiving text.
loo_Socket.StringCharset = "utf-8"
//  Send a request using a simple application-defined text protocol in which each message ends with a
//  CRLF.
ls_Command = "STATUS~r~n"
li_Success = loo_Socket.SendString(ls_Command)
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Socket.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Socket
    return
end if

//  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.
ls_FirstChunk = loo_Socket.ReceiveStringMaxN(64)
if loo_Socket.LastMethodSuccess = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Socket.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Socket
    return
end if

Write-Debug ls_FirstChunk


destroy loo_Socket