Ruby

Send a Single Byte over a Socket

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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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

#  Send a single byte.  The value must be in the range 0 through 255.
success = socket.SendByte(65)
if (success == false)
    print socket.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

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