(Classic ASP) Unzip an AES Encrypted Text File directly into a String Variable

A common need is to unzip from an AES encrypted Zip archive directly into a string variable, such that the unencrypted file never resides on disk, even temporarily. This example shows how to do it.

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' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Zip")
set zip = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Zip")

' This example opens a WinZip-compatible AES encrypted
' .zip that contains a single file: hamlet.xml.

' It decrypts and unzips hamlet.xml directly into a string
' variable.
zip.SetPassword "secret"
success = zip.OpenZip("qa_data/hamlet.zip")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( zip.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' entry is a Chilkat.ZipEntry
Set entry = zip.GetEntryByName("hamlet.xml")
If (zip.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Failed to find entry in zip") & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' lineEndingBehavior:
' 0 = leave unchanged.
' 1 = convert all to bare LF's
' 2 = convert all to CRLF's
lineEndingBehavior = 0
srcCharset = "utf-8"
xmlText = entry.UnzipToString(lineEndingBehavior,srcCharset)
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( xmlText) & "</pre>"


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