(VBScript) SFTP Upload and Download to a StringBuilder Object

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Demonstrates how to SFTP upload from a Chilkat StringBuilder object, and download into a StringBuilder object.

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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)

' 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.SFtp")
set sftp = CreateObject("Chilkat.SFtp")

' Set some timeouts, in milliseconds:
sftp.ConnectTimeoutMs = 5000
sftp.IdleTimeoutMs = 10000

' Connect to the SSH server and then authenticate.
port = 22
success = sftp.Connect("MY-SSH-SERVER-DOMAIN-OR-IP",port)
If (success = 1) Then
    success = sftp.AuthenticatePw("MY-SSH-LOGIN","MY-SSH-PASSWORD")
    If (success = 1) Then
        success = sftp.InitializeSftp()
    End If

End If

If (success <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(sftp.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder")
set sbA = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = sbA.LoadFile("qa_data/hamlet.xml","utf-8")

' Upload the contents of sbA to the SSH/SFTP server.
bIncludeBOM = 0
remotePath = "sftpTesting/hamlet.xml"
success = sftp.UploadSb(sbA,remotePath,"utf-8",bIncludeBOM)
If (success <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(sftp.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' Download the file..
' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder")
set sbB = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = sftp.DownloadSb(remotePath,"utf-8",sbB)
If (success <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(sftp.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' Verify that sbA and sbB have the exact same contents.
outFile.WriteLine("size of sbA: " & sbA.Length)
bCaseSensitive = 1
If (sbA.ContentsEqualSb(sbB,bCaseSensitive) = 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine("Contents are equal. Success.")
Else
    outFile.WriteLine("Contents are NOT equal.  Failed.")
End If

sftp.Disconnect 

outFile.Close