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.

Dim success As Boolean = 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.

Dim socket As New Chilkat.Socket
Dim bSsl As Boolean = True
success = socket.Connect("example.com",443,bSsl,5000)
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(socket.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


Dim rest As New Chilkat.Rest

'  Use the connected socket as the transport.  The 2nd argument enables automatic reconnection.
Dim bAutoReconnect As Boolean = True
success = rest.UseConnection(socket,bAutoReconnect)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


Dim responseText As String = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/api/status")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.WriteLine(responseText)