Perl

Connect to a REST Server

Demonstrates Rest.Connect, which establishes the initial TCP (and optionally TLS) connection to a REST server. The example connects over HTTPS and then reuses the connection for a request.

Background. A single connection can serve many requests to the same host. The TLS argument should be _TRUE_ for HTTPS (typically port 443), and automatic reconnection lets Chilkat transparently re-establish a dropped keep-alive connection.

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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

$rest = chilkat::CkRest->new();

#  Connect to the REST server.  The 3rd argument enables TLS (use 1 for HTTPS on port 443),
#  and the 4th enables automatic reconnection if the connection is dropped between requests.
$bTls = 1;
$bAutoReconnect = 1;
$success = $rest->Connect("example.com",443,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  The connection is now established and ready for requests.  A single connection can be reused for
#  many requests to the same server.
$responseText = $rest->fullRequestNoBody("GET","/api/status");
if ($rest->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print $responseText . "\r\n";