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Visual Basic 6.0

Receive a Line Terminated by CRLF

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Demonstrates Socket.ReceiveToCRLF, which receives text through a CRLF line terminator and returns the text including the terminator.

Background. Chilkat encodes CR followed by LF using StringCharset and searches the incoming byte stream for that exact sequence. This is convenient for line-oriented text protocols.

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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.  The 3rd argument enables the TLS handshake after the TCP
'  connection succeeds; the 4th is the maximum time to wait, in milliseconds.
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

'  StringCharset controls the character encoding used when sending and receiving text.
socket.StringCharset = "utf-8"
'  Send a request using a simple application-defined text protocol in which each message ends with a
'  CRLF.
Dim command As String
command = "STATUS" & vbCrLf
success = socket.SendString(command)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print socket.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

'  Receive text through a CRLF line terminator, returning the text including the terminator.  This is
'  convenient for line-oriented text protocols in which each response is a CRLF-terminated line.
Dim responseLine As String
responseLine = socket.ReceiveToCRLF()
If (socket.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Debug.Print socket.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print responseLine