Wait for a Socket to Become Readable

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Demonstrates Socket.SelectForReading, which waits for read-ready activity on the socket, or on any contained socket when the object is a socket set. It returns 1 if ready, 0 on timeout, or -1 on error.

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

'  Wait up to 5 seconds for read-ready activity on the socket (or, for a socket set, on any contained
'  socket).  Returns 1 if ready, 0 on timeout, or -1 on error.
ready = socket.SelectForReading(5000)
If (ready < 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(socket.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

If (ready <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine("No data became available before the timeout.")
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine("The socket has data ready to read.")

outFile.Close