Download a Binary REST Response into BinData

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Demonstrates Rest.FullRequestNoBodyBd, which sends a request with no body and stores the binary response body in a BinData.

The file paths are relative to the application's current working directory. Absolute paths may also be used. Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

<?php

$success = 0;

$rest = new COM("Chilkat.Rest");
$bTls = 1;
$bAutoReconnect = 1;
$success = $rest->Connect('example.com',443,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  The file paths are relative to the application's current working directory.  Absolute paths
//  may also be used.  Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

//  FullRequestNoBodyBd sends a request with no body and stores the binary response body in a
//  BinData.  This is appropriate when the response is binary, such as an image or file download.
$bdResponse = new COM("Chilkat.BinData");
$success = $rest->FullRequestNoBodyBd('GET','/api/images/1',$bdResponse);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

$bSaved = $bdResponse->WriteFile('qa_output/image.png');
if ($bSaved != 1) {
    print 'Failed to save the response body.' . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Downloaded ' . $bdResponse->NumBytes . ' bytes.' . "\n";

?>