Tips on Using Chilkat Socket:

Chilkat socket

1. Only supports TCP connection

http://www.chilkatsoft.com/refdoc/vbnetSocketRef.html

2. You have to unlock the component

http://www.example-code.com/vbdotnet/socket_connect.asp

3. Default string enconding is ANSI.

If you send the data as string, the proper should be encoding is ANSI, not unicode. By default, chilkat socket is ANSI encoding. However, the proper way is actually to send out the data as bytes.

This is because if you send using string, there are certain characters which are not represented.




where the data chr(129) is truncated if using send using string. Because

Refer to the following.

http://www.fingertipsoft.com/3dkbd/ansitable.html

129 = unused.

4. Set Timeout using 'MaxReadIdleMs' property.

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