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Setting a HTTP Max Response Size

Demonstrates the MaxResponseSize property.

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Ruby
require 'chilkat'

success = false

http = Chilkat::CkHttp.new()

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() + "\n";
    exit
end

print "OK" + "\n";