Ruby

Receive Bytes as Encoded Text from a Socket

Demonstrates Socket.ReceiveBytesENC, which receives one delivery of binary data and returns it encoded as text using a named encoding.

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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require 'chilkat'

success = false

socket = Chilkat::CkSocket.new()

#  Connect to the server using TLS.
bTls = true
maxWaitMs = 5000
success = socket.Connect("example.com",5000,bTls,maxWaitMs)
if (success == false)
    print socket.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  Receive one delivery of binary data and return it encoded as text using the named encoding.  This
#  is convenient for logging or transporting binary data as printable text.
encoded = socket.receiveBytesENC("base64")
if (socket.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false)
    print socket.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print encoded + "\n";