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Send a Form-URL-Encoded REST Request

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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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loRest
LOCAL lnBTls
LOCAL lnBAutoReconnect
LOCAL lcResponseText

lnSuccess = 0

loRest = CreateObject('Chilkat.Rest')
lnBTls = 1
lnBAutoReconnect = 1
lnSuccess = loRest.Connect("example.com",443,lnBTls,lnBAutoReconnect)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loRest.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loRest
    CANCEL
ENDIF

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

*  Send the form-url-encoded request.  The parameters become the request body rather than the URL
*  query string.
lcResponseText = loRest.FullRequestFormUrlEncoded("POST","/api/login")
IF (loRest.LastMethodSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loRest.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loRest
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? lcResponseText

RELEASE loRest