(Visual Basic 6.0) Example: Http.ExtractMetaRefreshUrl method

Demonstrates the ExtractMetaRefreshUrl method.

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ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

Dim success As Long
success = 0

Dim http As New ChilkatHttp

' Sample HTML with a META refresh.

' <!DOCTYPE html>
' <html lang="en">
' <head>
'   <meta charset="utf-8" />
'   <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; url=https://example.com" />
'   <title>Meta Refresh Redirect</title>
' </head>
' <body>
'   <p>Redirecting to example.com in 5 seconds�</p>
' </body>
' </html>

Dim sb As New ChilkatStringBuilder
Dim bCrlf As Long
bCrlf = 1
success = sb.AppendLine("<!DOCTYPE html>",bCrlf)
success = sb.AppendLine("<html lang=""en"">",bCrlf)
success = sb.AppendLine("<head>",bCrlf)
success = sb.AppendLine("  <meta charset=""utf-8"" />",bCrlf)
success = sb.AppendLine("  <meta http-equiv=""refresh"" content=""5; url=https://example.com"" />",bCrlf)
success = sb.AppendLine("  <title>Meta Refresh Redirect</title>",bCrlf)
success = sb.AppendLine("</head>",bCrlf)
success = sb.AppendLine("<body>",bCrlf)
success = sb.AppendLine("  <p>Redirecting to example.com in 5 seconds�</p>",bCrlf)
success = sb.AppendLine("</body>",bCrlf)
success = sb.AppendLine("</html>",bCrlf)

Dim url As String
url = http.ExtractMetaRefreshUrl(sb.GetAsString())
If (http.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Debug.Print "The HTML has no META refresh tag."
Else
    Debug.Print "META refresh URL: " & url
End If