Java

HTTP Response Inspection

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Demonstrates how to inspect the HTTP response, including the status code, status text, and response headers, for Chilkat methods that don't use an HttpResponse object. Chilkat2 Java

import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Http;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Mime;

public class ChilkatExample {

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

        // Returns the contents of the response body.
        String jsonText = http.quickGetStr("https://chilkatsoft.com/helloWorld.json");

        // Examine the response status code.
        System.out.println("response status code: " + http.getLastStatus());

        // Examine the response status text
        System.out.println("response status text: " + http.getLastStatusText());

        // Examine the full response header.
        System.out.println("response header:");
        System.out.println(http.getLastResponseHeader());
        System.out.println("----");

        // Examine the response content-type
        System.out.println("LastContentType = " + http.getLastContentType());

        // Examine the response last-mod date
        System.out.println("LastModDate = " + http.getLastModDate());

        // Load the response header into a Chilkat MIME object to access its fields individually.
        Mime mime = new Mime();
        mime.loadMime(http.getLastResponseHeader());

        int numHeaders = mime.getNumHeaderFields();
        int i = 0;
        System.out.println("---- MIME Headers ----");
        while (i < numHeaders) {
            System.out.println("name:  " + mime.getHeaderFieldName(i));
            System.out.println("value: " + mime.getHeaderFieldValue(i));
            i = i + 1;
        }

        System.out.println("----");

        // Get a header field value by name:
        System.out.println("ETag: " + mime.getHeaderField("ETag"));

        // Output:

        // response status code: 200
        // response status text: OK
        // response header:
        // Content-Type: application/json
        // Last-Modified: Sun, 20 Aug 2023 11:36:27 GMT
        // Accept-Ranges: bytes
        // ETag: "34c27f8e5ad3d91:0"
        // Server: Microsoft-IIS/10.0
        // X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
        // Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2025 14:38:13 GMT
        // Content-Length: 22
        // ----
        // LastContentType = application/json
        // LastModDate = 2023-08-20
        // ---- MIME Headers ----
        // name:  Content-Type
        // value: application/json
        // name:  Last-Modified
        // value: Sun, 20 Aug 2023 11:36:27 GMT
        // name:  Accept-Ranges
        // value: bytes
        // name:  ETag
        // value: "34c27f8e5ad3d91:0"
        // name:  Server
        // value: Microsoft-IIS/10.0
        // name:  X-Powered-By
        // value: ASP.NET
        // name:  Date
        // value: Sat, 30 Aug 2025 14:38:13 GMT
        // name:  Content-Length
        // value: 22
        // ----
        // ETag: "34c27f8e5ad3d91:0"
    }
}