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Visual Basic 6.0

Receive Bytes as Encoded Text from a Socket

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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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Visual Basic 6.0
Dim success As Long
success = 0

Dim socket As New ChilkatSocket

'  Connect to the server using TLS.
Dim bTls As Long
bTls = 1
Dim maxWaitMs As Long
maxWaitMs = 5000
success = socket.Connect("example.com",5000,bTls,maxWaitMs)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print socket.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

'  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.
Dim encoded As String
encoded = socket.ReceiveBytesENC("base64")
If (socket.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Debug.Print socket.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print encoded