VBScript

Send Encoded Bytes over a Socket

Demonstrates Socket.SendBytesENC, which decodes text using a named encoding (such as base64) and sends the resulting binary bytes.

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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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

'  Decode the text using the named encoding, then send the resulting binary bytes.  Here the base64
'  text "SGVsbG8=" decodes to the bytes for "Hello".
success = socket.SendBytesENC("SGVsbG8=","base64")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(socket.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine("Bytes sent.")

outFile.Close