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Setting a HTTP Max Response Size

Demonstrates the MaxResponseSize property.

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C
#include <C_CkHttp.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkHttp http;
    unsigned long maxSz;
    const char *xmlStr;

    success = FALSE;

    http = CkHttp_Create();

    maxSz = 16384;
    CkHttp_putMaxResponseSize(http,maxSz);

    //  Try to get something larger, such as hamlet.xml which is 279658 bytes
    xmlStr = CkHttp_quickGetStr(http,"https://chilkatsoft.com/hamlet.xml");
    if (CkHttp_getLastMethodSuccess(http) == FALSE) {
        //  If the LastErrorText contains the string "MaxResponseSize",
        //  then the HTTP request failed because the response body would've been larger than the max allowed response size.
        printf("%s\n",CkHttp_lastErrorText(http));
        CkHttp_Dispose(http);
        return;
    }

    printf("OK\n");


    CkHttp_Dispose(http);

    }