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Duplicate curl -u user:password with Chilkat HTTP

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Demonstrates how to duplicate a curl command that uses the -u username:password option. (This assumes HTTP Basic Authentication, and Chilkat requires Basic authentication to be over a TLS connection.)

Duplicates the following curl command:

curl https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/oauth2/token \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "Accept-Language: en_US" \
  -u "Client-Id:Secret" \
  -d "grant_type=client_credentials"

Xbase++

LOCAL nSuccess
LOCAL oHttp
LOCAL oReq
LOCAL oResp

nSuccess := 0

//  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
//  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

oHttp := CreateObject("Chilkat.Http")
oReq := CreateObject("Chilkat.HttpRequest")

//  The AddHeader method corresponds to the curl "-H" argument.
oReq:AddHeader("Accept", "application/json")
oReq:AddHeader("Accept-Language", "en_US")

//  The curl "-d" argument specifies the HTTP request body.  In this case,
//  we're sending an application/x-www-form-urlencoded request, and therefore
//  the body contains the URL-encoded query parameters.
oReq:AddParam("grant_type", "client_credentials")

oHttp:Login := "PAYPAL_REST_API_CLIENT_ID"
oHttp:Password := "PAYPAL_REST_API_SECRET"

//  Sends a POST request where the Content-Type is application/x-www-form-urlencoded
oReq:HttpVerb := "POST"
oReq:ContentType := "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

oResp := CreateObject("Chilkat.HttpResponse")
nSuccess := oHttp:HttpReq("https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/oauth2/token", oReq, oResp)
IF (nSuccess == 0)
    ? oHttp:LastErrorText
    oHttp:destroy()
    oReq:destroy()
    oResp:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

IF (oResp:StatusCode != 200)
    ? "Error status code: " + Str(oResp:StatusCode)
    ? oResp:BodyStr
    oHttp:destroy()
    oReq:destroy()
    oResp:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

//  The JSON response is in the resp BodyStr property
? oResp:BodyStr
? "-- Success."

oHttp:destroy()
oReq:destroy()
oResp:destroy()