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Resolve the FTP Password from OS Secure Storage

Demonstrates the EnableSecrets property, which lets password properties contain a secret specification beginning with !! that Chilkat resolves from the operating system's secure storage instead of using the literal text.

Background: This is a cleaner alternative to reading a secret yourself and assigning it: with EnableSecrets on, you set the password to a reference like !!my_secret_name and Chilkat fetches the real value from the platform's secure store. The literal password never appears in your source or configuration, which is exactly the practice recommended throughout these examples.

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Dim success As Boolean = False

Dim ftp As New Chilkat.Ftp2

ftp.Hostname = "ftp.example.com"
ftp.Username = "myFtpLogin"

'  EnableSecrets (default False) allows password properties to contain a "secret specification"
'  beginning with "!!" that Chilkat resolves from the operating system's secure storage instead
'  of using the literal text.
ftp.EnableSecrets = True

'  Provide a secret specification rather than a literal password.  Chilkat looks up the named
'  secret in the OS secure store.
ftp.Password = "!!my_ftp_password_secret"

success = ftp.Connect()
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(ftp.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.WriteLine("Connected using a password from OS secure storage.")

success = ftp.Disconnect()
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(ftp.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If