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Receive Bytes into a BinData

Demonstrates Socket.ReceiveBd, which receives one delivery of binary data and appends it to a BinData. It returns whatever is immediately available.

Background. The BinData receive methods accumulate raw bytes in a BinData object. A single receive returns only what is currently available, whereas the counted receive waits for an exact number of bytes.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

$socket = New-Object Chilkat.Socket

#  Connect to the server using TLS.
$bTls = $true
$maxWaitMs = 5000
$success = $socket.Connect("example.com",5000,$bTls,$maxWaitMs)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($socket.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

#  Receive one delivery of binary data and append it to a BinData.  ReceiveBd returns whatever is
#  immediately available; it does not loop to drain everything that may follow.
$bd = New-Object Chilkat.BinData
$success = $socket.ReceiveBd($bd)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($socket.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$("Received " + $bd.NumBytes + " bytes.")