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Perl

Example: Http.QuickGetStr method

Demonstrates the QuickGetStr method.

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Chilkat2 Perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

my $http = Chilkat2::Http->new;

# Keep the response body if there's an error.
$http->KeepResponseBody(1);

# Send the HTTP GET and return the content in a string.
my $str = $http->QuickGetStr('https://www.chilkatsoft.com/helloWorld.json');
if (!$http->LastMethodSuccess) {
    if ($http->LastStatus == 0) {
        # Communications error.  We did not get a response.
        print $http->LastErrorText, "\n";
    } else {
        print 'Response status code: ', $http->LastStatus, "\n";
        print "Response body error text:\n";
        print $http->LastResponseBody, "\n";
    }

    exit;
}

print $str, "\n";
print "Success\n";