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HTTPS GET Request with Authorization Bearer Header

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Demonstrates how to send an HTTPS GET request with an "Authorization: Bearer " header and get the text response (which could be JSON).

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Dim success As Boolean = False

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

Dim http As ChilkatHttp
http.Initialize("http")

'  Setting the AuthToken property causes the "Authorization: Bearer <token>" header to be added to each request.
'  Set AuthToken equal to your token without the keyword "Bearer".
http.AuthToken = "Your access token"

'  Send the GET request and get the response text (assuming you know beforehand that the response will be text, such as JSON, XML, HTML, etc.)
Dim responseText As String = http.QuickGetStr("https://www.example.com/something")
If http.LastMethodSuccess = False Then
    '  This means something failed where you did not get an HTTP response.
    Log(http.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


'  If you get here, then you received an HTTP response where you can check the response status code, and the responseText will contain
'  the response body.
Log("Response status code = " & http.LastStatus)
If http.LastStatus <> 200 Then
    '  Probably an error from the server.  Examine the HTTP response body.
    Log(responseText)
    Return
End If


'  If you get here, the response status code was the expected value indicating success,
'  if you know the response is JSON, you can load it into a Chilkat JSON object and continue ...
Dim json As ChilkatJsonObject
json.Initialize
json.EmitCompact = True
json.Load(responseText)
Log(json.Emit)

'  Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON: 
'  Generate Parsing Code from JSON

'  ...
'  ...