Xojo Plugin

HTTPS GET URL with URL Encoded Query Params

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Creates a URL with URL encoded query params, and sends an HTTPS GET to the URL. Xojo Plugin

Dim success As Boolean
success = False

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

// Create a URL with URL-encoded query params.
Dim sbUrl As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
success = sbUrl.Append("https://www.example.com/something?")

// If we know a query param value does not have any special chars requiring URL encoding,
// just add it.  In this case, there is no need to URL encode "123" because "123" url encoded is still just "123".
success = sbUrl.Append("abc=123&xyz=")

Dim sbValue As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
success = sbValue.Append("this is a test")

success = sbUrl.Append("msg=")
success = sbUrl.Append(sbValue.GetEncoded("url","utf-8"))

// sbUrl contains:  https://www.example.com/something?abc=123&xyz=msg=this%20is%20a%20test
System.DebugLog(sbUrl.GetAsString())

// Send the GET request and get the response body, which is assumed to be text of some sort (HTML, XML, JSON, etc.)
// (Chilkat automatically decompresses gzipped responses)
Dim http As New Chilkat.Http
Dim responseBody As String
responseBody = http.QuickGetStr(sbUrl.GetAsString())
If (http.LastMethodSuccess = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(http.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

System.DebugLog("Response Body:")
System.DebugLog(responseBody)