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Send a Form-URL-Encoded REST Request

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Demonstrates Rest.FullRequestFormUrlEncoded, which sends an application/x-www-form-urlencoded request. The body is built from the query parameters added to the object, and the response body is returned as text.

Background. For a form-url-encoded request the accumulated parameters become the request body rather than the URL query string. This matches the encoding used by HTML form POSTs.

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C++
#include <CkRest.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    CkRest rest;
    bool bTls = true;
    bool bAutoReconnect = true;
    success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << rest.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    //  The application/x-www-form-urlencoded body is built from the query parameters added to the object.
    rest.AddQueryParam("username","alice");
    rest.AddQueryParam("action","login");

    //  Send the form-url-encoded request.  The parameters become the request body rather than the URL
    //  query string.
    const char *responseText = rest.fullRequestFormUrlEncoded("POST","/api/login");
    if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        std::cout << rest.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

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