(PowerShell) Accept Connection on Socket

Demonstrates how to create a TCP/IP socket, listen on a port, accept an incoming connection, and send a "Hello World" message to the client.

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[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\myAssemblies\ChilkatDotNet2.dll")

$listenSocket = New-Object Chilkat.Socket

$success = $listenSocket.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($listenSocket.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

#  Bind to a port and listen for incoming connections:
#  This example will listen at port 5555 and allows for a backlog
#  of 25 pending connection requests.
$success = $listenSocket.BindAndListen(5555,25)
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($listenSocket.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

#  Get the next incoming connection
#  Wait a maximum of 20 seconds (20000 millisec)

$connectedSocket = $listenSocket.AcceptNextConnection(20000)
if ($connectedSocket -eq $null ) {
    $($listenSocket.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

#  Set maximum timeouts for reading an writing (in millisec)
$connectedSocket.MaxReadIdleMs = 10000
$connectedSocket.MaxSendIdleMs = 10000

#  Send a "Hello World!" message to the client:
$success = $connectedSocket.SendString("Hello World!")
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($connectedSocket.LastErrorText)

    exit
}

#  Close the connection with the client.
#  Wait a max of 20 seconds (20000 millsec)
$success = $connectedSocket.Close(20000)

$("success!")