Lua

Socket Convenience Method: BuildHttpGetRequest

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Demonstrates the BuildHttpGetRequest method. Lua

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- The BuildHttpGetRequest method is a convenience method for building
-- an HTTP GET request.  Normally, an application would use Chilkat's HTTP or REST API's
-- for sending HTTP requests.

local socket = chilkat.Socket.new()

local url = "http://www.chilkatsoft.com/test.asp?x=123&y=456"
local reqStr = socket:build_http_get_request(url)
print(reqStr)
print("----")

-- The result is:

--     GET /test.asp?x=123&y=456 HTTP/1.1
--     Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
--     Connection: keep-alive
--     User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
--     Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
--     Host: www.chilkatsoft.com

-- The result is meant to look like a request from a browser.

-- The same thing can be done using the Url and HttpRequest classes, but with more flexibility.

local req = chilkat.HttpRequest.new()
req:set_from_url(url)
reqStr = req:generate_request_text()
print(reqStr)
print("----")

-- The result is:

--     GET /test.asp?x=123&y=456 HTTP/1.1
--     Host: domain

-- Add some headers..
req:add_header("Host", "www.chilkatsoft.com")
req:add_header("Accept-Language", "en-us,en;q=0.5")
req:add_header("Some-Other-Header", "123456")

reqStr = req:generate_request_text()
print(reqStr)

-- The result is now:

--     GET /test.asp?x=123&y=456 HTTP/1.1
--     Host: www.chilkatsoft.com
--     Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
--     Some-Other-Header: 123456