(PowerBuilder) HTTP Download any Type of File (binary or text)

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The Download method can download any file type, whether binary (e.g., .zip, .pdf) or text (.xml, .txt), without distinction. It streams the file byte-for-byte from the web server exactly as received. This same process applies to web pages: providing a URL typically viewed in a browser downloads the server's delivered HTML to a file.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads

ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

integer li_rc
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_Http
string ls_LocalFilePath
integer li_StatusCode

li_Success = 0

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

loo_Http = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Http.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Http")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Http
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if
loo_Http.KeepResponseBody = 1

// Download a .zip
ls_LocalFilePath = "/temp/hamlet.zip"
li_Success = loo_Http.Download("https://www.chilkatsoft.com/hamlet.zip",ls_LocalFilePath)
li_StatusCode = loo_Http.LastStatus
if li_Success = 0 then
    if li_StatusCode = 0 then
        // Unable to either send the request or get the response.
        Write-Debug loo_Http.LastErrorText
    else
        // We got a response, but the status code was not in the 200s
        Write-Debug "Response status code: " + string(li_StatusCode)
        // Examine the response body.
        Write-Debug "Response body:"
        Write-Debug loo_Http.LastResponseBody
    end if

    Write-Debug "Download failed."

else
    Write-Debug "Download success, response status = " + string(li_StatusCode)
end if

// Download an XML file:
ls_LocalFilePath = "/temp/hamlet.xml"
li_Success = loo_Http.Download("https://www.chilkatsoft.com/hamlet.xml",ls_LocalFilePath)
// ...
// Check for errors in the same way as shown above..
// ...

Write-Debug "OK!"


destroy loo_Http