(Node.js) Socket Convenience Method: BuildHttpGetRequest

Demonstrates the BuildHttpGetRequest method.

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var os = require('os');
if (os.platform() == 'win32') {  
  var chilkat = require('@chilkat/ck-node23-win64'); 
} else if (os.platform() == 'linux') {
    if (os.arch() == 'arm') {
        var chilkat = require('@chilkat/ck-node23-linux-arm');
    } else if (os.arch() == 'arm64') {
        var chilkat = require('@chilkat/ck-node23-linux-arm64');
    } else {
        var chilkat = require('@chilkat/ck-node23-linux-x64');
    }
} else if (os.platform() == 'darwin') {
  var chilkat = require('@chilkat/ck-node23-mac-universal');
}

function chilkatExample() {

    // 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.  

    var socket = new chilkat.Socket();

    var url = "http://www.chilkatsoft.com/test.asp?x=123&y=456";
    var reqStr = socket.BuildHttpGetRequest(url);
    console.log(reqStr);
    console.log("----");

    // 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.

    var req = new chilkat.HttpRequest();
    req.SetFromUrl(url);
    reqStr = req.GenerateRequestText();
    console.log(reqStr);
    console.log("----");

    // The result is:

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

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

    reqStr = req.GenerateRequestText();
    console.log(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

}

chilkatExample();