Send a Form-URL-Encoded REST Request

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Demonstrates Rest.FullRequestFormUrlEncoded, which sends an application/x-www-form-urlencoded request. The body is built from the query parameters added to the object, and the response body is returned as text.

#include <C_CkRest.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkRest rest;
    BOOL bTls;
    BOOL bAutoReconnect;
    const char *responseText;

    success = FALSE;

    rest = CkRest_Create();
    bTls = TRUE;
    bAutoReconnect = TRUE;
    success = CkRest_Connect(rest,"example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkRest_lastErrorText(rest));
        CkRest_Dispose(rest);
        return;
    }

    //  The application/x-www-form-urlencoded body is built from the query parameters added to the object.
    CkRest_AddQueryParam(rest,"username","alice");
    CkRest_AddQueryParam(rest,"action","login");

    //  Send the form-url-encoded request.  The parameters become the request body rather than the URL
    //  query string.
    responseText = CkRest_fullRequestFormUrlEncoded(rest,"POST","/api/login");
    if (CkRest_getLastMethodSuccess(rest) == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkRest_lastErrorText(rest));
        CkRest_Dispose(rest);
        return;
    }

    printf("%s\n",responseText);


    CkRest_Dispose(rest);

    }