Use an Existing Socket Connection for REST

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Demonstrates Rest.UseConnection, which supplies an already-connected Socket as the transport for REST requests instead of calling Connect. This is useful when the connection must be established with specific socket options or shared across objects.

Dim success As Boolean = False

'  Demonstrates supplying an already-connected socket for the REST transport.  This is useful when
'  the connection must be established with specific socket options, or reused across objects.

Dim socket As ChilkatSocket
socket.Initialize("socket")
Dim bSsl As Boolean = True
success = socket.Connect("example.com", 443, bSsl, 5000)
If success <> True Then
    Log(socket.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


Dim rest As ChilkatRest
rest.Initialize("rest")

'  Use the connected socket as the transport.  The 2nd argument enables automatic reconnection.
Dim bAutoReconnect As Boolean = True
success = rest.UseConnection(socket, bAutoReconnect)
If success = False Then
    Log(rest.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


Dim responseText As String = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET", "/api/status")
If rest.LastMethodSuccess = False Then
    Log(rest.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

Log(responseText)