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HTTP Methods - GET and DELETE

Demonstrate a method for sending HTTP requests that don't have a request body, such as for GET or DELETE requests. AutoIt

Local $bSuccess = False

; This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
; See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$oHttp = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Http")

; Specifiy a session log file so we can see the exact request/response
$oHttp.SessionLogFilename = "c:/aaworkarea/sessionLog.txt"

; Perhaps add a custom header or two..
$oHttp.SetRequestHeader "x-exz-date","20201012T235046Z"
$oHttp.SetRequestHeader "x-exz-id","1234"

; Send a GET request to https://www.example.com/someting?param1=123&param2=abc
Local $sUrl = "https://www.example.com/someting?param1=123&param2=abc"
$oResp = ObjCreate("Chilkat.HttpResponse")
$bSuccess = $oHttp.HttpNoBody("GET",$sUrl,$oResp)
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oHttp.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

; The GET request that is sent looks like this.
; The Accept and Accept-Encoding headers are automatically added by default.

; 	GET /someting?param1=123&param2=abc HTTP/1.1
; 	Host: www.example.com
; 	Accept: */*
; 	Accept-Encoding: gzip
; 	x-exz-date: 20201012T235046Z
; 	x-exz-id: 1234

; Get the response status
Local $iStatusCode = $oResp.StatusCode
ConsoleWrite("Response status: " & $iStatusCode & @CRLF)

; Get the response body
ConsoleWrite($oResp.BodyStr & @CRLF)

; -------------------------------------------------------------
; Let's say we want to send a DELETE request, and we only want to accept an application/json response,
; and we don't want gzipped responses...

; First remove the previously specified custom headers.
$oHttp.ClearHeaders 

; Indicate we only accept application/json non-gzipped responses.
$oHttp.Accept = "application/json"
$oHttp.AllowGzip = False

; Send a DELETE request to https://www.example.com/deleteSomething
$sUrl = "https://www.example.com/deleteSomething"
$bSuccess = $oHttp.HttpNoBody("DELETE",$sUrl,$oResp)
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oHttp.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

; The DELETE request that is sent looks like this.
; The empty Accept-Encoding header value means we only want non-compressed responses.

; 	DELETE /deleteSomething HTTP/1.1
; 	Host: www.example.com
; 	Accept: application/json
; 	Accept-Encoding: 

; Get the response status
$iStatusCode = $oResp.StatusCode
ConsoleWrite("Response status: " & $iStatusCode & @CRLF)

; Get the response body
ConsoleWrite($oResp.BodyStr & @CRLF)