(Lianja) HTTPS GET URL with URL Encoded Query Params

Creates a URL with URL encoded query params, and sends an HTTPS GET to the URL.

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// This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

// Create a URL with URL-encoded query params.
loSbUrl = createobject("CkStringBuilder")
loSbUrl.Append("https://www.example.com/something?")

// If we know a query param value does not have any special chars requiring URL encoding,
// just add it.  In this case, there is no need to URL encode "123" because "123" url encoded is still just "123".
loSbUrl.Append("abc=123&xyz=")

loSbValue = createobject("CkStringBuilder")
loSbValue.Append("this is a test")

loSbUrl.Append("msg=")
loSbUrl.Append(loSbValue.GetEncoded("url","utf-8"))

// sbUrl contains:  https://www.example.com/something?abc=123&xyz=msg=this%20is%20a%20test
? loSbUrl.GetAsString()

// Send the GET request and get the response body, which is assumed to be text of some sort (HTML, XML, JSON, etc.)
// (Chilkat automatically decompresses gzipped responses)
loHttp = createobject("CkHttp")
lcResponseBody = loHttp.QuickGetStr(loSbUrl.GetAsString())
if (loHttp.LastMethodSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loHttp.LastErrorText
    release loSbUrl
    release loSbValue
    release loHttp
    return
endif

? "Response Body:"
? lcResponseBody


release loSbUrl
release loSbValue
release loHttp