#6 Provide network socket support for the VDK

[Jason Ely]

We live in a virtualised programming world. Speaking to various server and virtual operating systems or clusters has become the norm. VBScript is primarily a scripting language aimed at system administration and remote connecting to various servers and clients has become a common task.

In light of this, the VDK will support synchronous socket programming support for the following protocols:

1. TCP
2. UDP
3. SSH

TCP and UDP support will be provided across Winsock while SSH support will be provided across plink.exe (putty automation executable).

With socket support, VDK users must be able to connect to a socket using a target host and port with a valid username and connection. Once connected, the socket class will have methods to read and write Strings to a remote host.