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Setting a HTTP Max Response Size

Demonstrates the MaxResponseSize property.

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C++
#include <CkHttp.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    CkHttp http;

    unsigned long maxSz = 16384;
    http.put_MaxResponseSize(maxSz);

    //  Try to get something larger, such as hamlet.xml which is 279658 bytes
    const char *xmlStr = http.quickGetStr("https://chilkatsoft.com/hamlet.xml");
    if (http.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        //  If the LastErrorText contains the string "MaxResponseSize",
        //  then the HTTP request failed because the response body would've been larger than the max allowed response size.
        std::cout << http.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    std::cout << "OK" << "\r\n";
    }