(Visual Basic 6.0) 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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' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

Dim listenSocket As New ChilkatSocket

' 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.
Dim success As Long
success = listenSocket.BindAndListen(5555,25)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print listenSocket.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Get the next incoming connection
' Wait a maximum of 20 seconds (20000 millisec)
Dim connectedSocket As ChilkatSocket
Set connectedSocket = listenSocket.AcceptNextConnection(20000)
If (listenSocket.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Debug.Print listenSocket.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' 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 <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print connectedSocket.LastErrorText

    Exit Sub
End If

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

Debug.Print "success!"