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Topic: ReadtoCount example
creatinggenius

From: Saratoga Springs, NY USA
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Member Since: 08/29/11
posted September 12, 2011 12:13 PM

can you please give me a ReadToCount sample in VB.net.
My goal is to wait 30 seconds and gather all the text that the telnet server sends out. So I do not want to use ReadToDelimiter.

So my code looks something like this
TelnetControl.SocketOption.ReceiveTimeout = "30000"
      ' TelnetControl.Socket.ReceiveTimeout = 50000
      TelnetControl.TerminalType = "vt100"
            TelnetControl.Connect(TcpSession)
            TelnetControl.ReadToDelimiter("Name:")
      'Send the Username
      TelnetControl.Write(username + vbCrLf)
      'Manually read in the Password prompt
      TelnetControl.ReadToDelimiter("Password:")
      'Send The Password
      TelnetControl.Write(username + vbCrLf)
      'Finally Read up to the command paramter.
      TelnetControl.ReadToDelimiter(":>")
      'Send The COMMAND
      TelnetControl.Write(command + vbCrLf)

      SendText(TelnetControl.ReadToCount(A, B, C), textmessage, username)

But i do not know what A, B, C are supposed to be or mean
Nick B (Admin)

From: Utica, NY USA
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Member Since: 05/25/10

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posted September 12, 2011 1:55 PM

Hello,

As is described in the help documentation for this method, A is an array of bytes to read into, B is the offset into the byte array at which the bytes are written to, and C is count, the number of bytes you want to read off of the socket/connection.

example:
Dim byteArrayBuffer() As Byte = New Byte(1023) {}
TelnetControl.ReadToCount(byteArrayBuffer, 0, 1024)

Based on your description though, I would recommend just using a read loop, instead of ReadToCount, so that the number of bytes you read isn't limited:

Dim s As String = ""
'Receive data when it is sent by the remote host
Dim buffer() As Byte = New Byte(1023) {}
Do While TelnetControl.State <> ConnectionState.Closed
   s = s + TelnetControl.Read(buffer, 0, 1024).ToString()
Loop
'do something with string s here.
Nick B (Admin)

From: Utica, NY USA
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posted September 12, 2011 3:45 PM

I was thinking about your issue some more, and I think it would actually be even better to use ReadToEnd(). Set the timeout, ReadToEnd(), and wait for the timeout exception. In the error handler, you can then access the DataRead field in the exception for the data. This way you can ensure that you read all of the data (don't need to specify the count of data to read, and there's no way to set it too low), and it will only read for 30 seconds.
creatinggenius

From: Saratoga Springs, NY USA
Posts: 10
Member Since: 08/29/11
posted September 13, 2011 10:02 AM

Thanks i would like to use the Read to end.
Could you send a example code including the
error handler.

Nick B (Admin)

From: Utica, NY USA
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posted September 13, 2011 11:26 AM

Try
   Telnet.ReadToEnd()
Catch ex As Dart.Telnet.DataException
'use ex.DataRead here
End Try
creatinggenius

From: Saratoga Springs, NY USA
Posts: 10
Member Since: 08/29/11
posted September 13, 2011 12:10 PM

Works good! thanks.
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