Perl

HTTP Methods - GET and DELETE

Demonstrate a method for sending HTTP requests that don't have a request body, such as for GET or DELETE requests. Perl

use chilkat();

$success = 0;

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

$http = chilkat::CkHttp->new();

# Specifiy a session log file so we can see the exact request/response
$http->put_SessionLogFilename("c:/aaworkarea/sessionLog.txt");

# Perhaps add a custom header or two..
$http->SetRequestHeader("x-exz-date","20201012T235046Z");
$http->SetRequestHeader("x-exz-id","1234");

# Send a GET request to https://www.example.com/someting?param1=123&param2=abc
$url = "https://www.example.com/someting?param1=123&param2=abc";
$resp = chilkat::CkHttpResponse->new();
$success = $http->HttpNoBody("GET",$url,$resp);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $http->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# The GET request that is sent looks like this.
# The Accept and Accept-Encoding headers are automatically added by default.

# 	GET /someting?param1=123&param2=abc HTTP/1.1
# 	Host: www.example.com
# 	Accept: */*
# 	Accept-Encoding: gzip
# 	x-exz-date: 20201012T235046Z
# 	x-exz-id: 1234

# Get the response status
$statusCode = $resp->get_StatusCode();
print "Response status: " . $statusCode . "\r\n";

# Get the response body
print $resp->bodyStr() . "\r\n";

# -------------------------------------------------------------
# Let's say we want to send a DELETE request, and we only want to accept an application/json response,
# and we don't want gzipped responses...

# First remove the previously specified custom headers.
$http->ClearHeaders();

# Indicate we only accept application/json non-gzipped responses.
$http->put_Accept("application/json");
$http->put_AllowGzip(0);

# Send a DELETE request to https://www.example.com/deleteSomething
$url = "https://www.example.com/deleteSomething";
$success = $http->HttpNoBody("DELETE",$url,$resp);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $http->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# The DELETE request that is sent looks like this.
# The empty Accept-Encoding header value means we only want non-compressed responses.

# 	DELETE /deleteSomething HTTP/1.1
# 	Host: www.example.com
# 	Accept: application/json
# 	Accept-Encoding: 

# Get the response status
$statusCode = $resp->get_StatusCode();
print "Response status: " . $statusCode . "\r\n";

# Get the response body
print $resp->bodyStr() . "\r\n";