Xbase++

Socket Convenience Method: BuildHttpGetRequest

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Demonstrates the BuildHttpGetRequest method. Xbase++

LOCAL oSocket
LOCAL cUrl
LOCAL cReqStr
LOCAL oReq

//  The BuildHttpGetRequest method is a convenience method for building
//  an HTTP GET request.  Normally, an application would use Chilkat's HTTP or REST API's
//  for sending HTTP requests.  

oSocket := CreateObject("Chilkat.Socket")

cUrl := "http://www.chilkatsoft.com/test.asp?x=123&y=456"
cReqStr := oSocket:BuildHttpGetRequest(cUrl)
? cReqStr
? "----"

//  The result is:

//  	GET /test.asp?x=123&y=456 HTTP/1.1
//  	Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
//  	Connection: keep-alive
//  	User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
//  	Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
//  	Host: www.chilkatsoft.com

//  The result is meant to look like a request from a browser.

//  The same thing can be done using the Url and HttpRequest classes, but with more flexibility.

oReq := CreateObject("Chilkat.HttpRequest")
oReq:SetFromUrl(cUrl)
cReqStr := oReq:GenerateRequestText()
? cReqStr
? "----"

//  The result is:

//  	GET /test.asp?x=123&y=456 HTTP/1.1
//  	Host: domain

//  Add some headers..
oReq:AddHeader("Host", "www.chilkatsoft.com")
oReq:AddHeader("Accept-Language", "en-us,en;q=0.5")
oReq:AddHeader("Some-Other-Header", "123456")

cReqStr := oReq:GenerateRequestText()
? cReqStr

//  The result is now:

//  	GET /test.asp?x=123&y=456 HTTP/1.1
//  	Host: www.chilkatsoft.com
//  	Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
//  	Some-Other-Header: 123456

oSocket:destroy()
oReq:destroy()