Lua Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Example: Http.HttpFile method

Shows how to use the HttpFile method to send an HTTP POST request with the contents of a file as the request body. The example sends the following request:

POST /api/v1/sites/123/deploys HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: application/zip
Content-Length: 123456

[binary data bytes of data.zip]

Also see: Chilkat Http Default and Auto-Filled Headers

Lua

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

local http = chilkat.Http.new()

local localFilePath = "C:/example/zips/data.zip"
local url = "https://example.com/api/v1/sites/123/deploys"

-- Send a POST with the contents of the file in the binary HTTP request body.
local resp = chilkat.HttpResponse.new()
local success = http:http_file("POST", url, localFilePath, "application/zip", resp)
if not success then
    print(http.last_error_text)
    return
end

print("Response Status Code: " .. resp.status_code)
print("Response body:")
print(resp.body_str)