Receive an Exact Number of Bytes as Encoded Text

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Demonstrates Socket.ReceiveNBytesENC, which receives exactly the requested number of bytes and returns them encoded using a named encoding. It waits until the full count is received.

Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

set socket = CreateObject("Chilkat.Socket")

'  Connect to the server using TLS.
bTls = 1
maxWaitMs = 5000
success = socket.Connect("example.com",5000,bTls,maxWaitMs)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(socket.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

'  MaxReadIdleMs controls the inactivity limit for receiving.  The ReceiveNBytesENC call will fail if
'  incoming bytes halt for longer than this many milliseconds before the full amount is received.
socket.MaxReadIdleMs = 15000

'  Receive exactly the requested number of bytes and return them encoded using the named encoding.
'  Unlike ReceiveBytesENC, this waits until the full count has been received.
hex = socket.ReceiveNBytesENC(16,"hex")
If (socket.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(socket.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine(hex)

outFile.Close