B4X

Socket Convenience Method: BuildHttpGetRequest

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Demonstrates the BuildHttpGetRequest method. B4X

'  The BuildHttpGetRequest method is a convenience method for building
'  an HTTP GET request.  Normally, an application would use Chilkat's HTTP or REST API's
'  for sending HTTP requests.  

Dim socket As ChilkatSocket
socket.Initialize("socket")

Dim url As String = "http://www.chilkatsoft.com/test.asp?x=123&y=456"
Dim reqStr As String = socket.BuildHttpGetRequest(url)
Log(reqStr)
Log("----")

'  The result is:

'  	GET /test.asp?x=123&y=456 HTTP/1.1
'  	Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
'  	Connection: keep-alive
'  	User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
'  	Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
'  	Host: www.chilkatsoft.com

'  The result is meant to look like a request from a browser.

'  The same thing can be done using the Url and HttpRequest classes, but with more flexibility.

Dim req As ChilkatHttpRequest
req.Initialize
req.SetFromUrl(url)
reqStr = req.GenerateRequestText
Log(reqStr)
Log("----")


'  The result is:

'  	GET /test.asp?x=123&y=456 HTTP/1.1
'  	Host: domain

'  Add some headers..
req.AddHeader("Host", "www.chilkatsoft.com")
req.AddHeader("Accept-Language", "en-us,en;q=0.5")
req.AddHeader("Some-Other-Header", "123456")

reqStr = req.GenerateRequestText
Log(reqStr)

'  The result is now:

'  	GET /test.asp?x=123&y=456 HTTP/1.1
'  	Host: www.chilkatsoft.com
'  	Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
'  	Some-Other-Header: 123456