Use an Existing Socket Connection for REST

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Demonstrates Rest.UseConnection, which supplies an already-connected Socket as the transport for REST requests instead of calling Connect. This is useful when the connection must be established with specific socket options or shared across objects.

Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

#  Demonstrates supplying an already-connected socket for the REST transport.  This is useful when
#  the connection must be established with specific socket options, or reused across objects.

$socket = New-Object Chilkat.Socket
$bSsl = $true
$success = $socket.Connect("example.com",443,$bSsl,5000)
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($socket.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$rest = New-Object Chilkat.Rest

#  Use the connected socket as the transport.  The 2nd argument enables automatic reconnection.
$bAutoReconnect = $true
$success = $rest.UseConnection($socket,$bAutoReconnect)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$responseText = $rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/api/status")
if ($rest.LastMethodSuccess -eq $false) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$($responseText)