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Setting a HTTP Max Response Size

Demonstrates the MaxResponseSize property.

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Chilkat2 Java
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Http;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Http http = new Http();

        long maxSz = 16384;
        http.setMaxResponseSize(maxSz);

        // Try to get something larger, such as hamlet.xml which is 279658 bytes
        String xmlStr;
        try {
            xmlStr = http.quickGetStr("https://chilkatsoft.com/hamlet.xml");
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            // 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.
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        System.out.println("OK");
    }
}