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 strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

my $rest = Chilkat2::Rest->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.
my $bTls = 1;
my $bAutoReconnect = 1;
my $success = $rest->Connect('example.com', 443, $bTls, $bAutoReconnect);
if (!$success) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# The connection is now established and ready for requests.  A single connection can be reused for
# many requests to the same server.
my $responseText = $rest->FullRequestNoBody('GET', '/api/status');
if (!$rest->LastMethodSuccess) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print $responseText, "\n";