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Setting a HTTP Max Response Size

Demonstrates the MaxResponseSize property.

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import sys
import chilkat

success = False

http = chilkat.CkHttp()

maxSz = 16384
http.put_MaxResponseSize(maxSz)

# Try to get something larger, such as hamlet.xml which is 279658 bytes
xmlStr = http.quickGetStr("https://chilkatsoft.com/hamlet.xml")
if (http.get_LastMethodSuccess() == False):
    # If the LastErrorText contains the string "MaxResponseSize",
    # then the HTTP request failed because the response body would've been larger than the max allowed response size.
    print(http.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

print("OK")