PHP ActiveX

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. PHP ActiveX

<?php

$success = 0;

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

$http = new COM("Chilkat.Http");

// Specifiy a session log file so we can see the exact request/response
$http->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 = new COM("Chilkat.HttpResponse");
$success = $http->HttpNoBody('GET',$url,$resp);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $http->LastErrorText . "\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->StatusCode;
print 'Response status: ' . $statusCode . "\n";

// Get the response body
print $resp->BodyStr . "\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->Accept = 'application/json';
$http->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 . "\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->StatusCode;
print 'Response status: ' . $statusCode . "\n";

// Get the response body
print $resp->BodyStr . "\n";

?>