(Xojo Plugin) HTTP Download any Type of File (binary or text)

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The Download method can download any file type, whether binary (e.g., .zip, .pdf) or text (.xml, .txt), without distinction. It streams the file byte-for-byte from the web server exactly as received. This same process applies to web pages: providing a URL typically viewed in a browser downloads the server's delivered HTML to a file.

Chilkat Xojo Plugin Download

Xojo Plugin for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and ARM, ARM64

Dim success As Boolean
success = False

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

Dim http As New Chilkat.Http
http.KeepResponseBody = True

// Download a .zip
Dim localFilePath As String
localFilePath = "/temp/hamlet.zip"
success = http.Download("https://www.chilkatsoft.com/hamlet.zip",localFilePath)
Dim statusCode As Int32
statusCode = http.LastStatus
If (success = False) Then
    If (statusCode = 0) Then
        // Unable to either send the request or get the response.
        System.DebugLog(http.LastErrorText)
    Else
        // We got a response, but the status code was not in the 200s
        System.DebugLog("Response status code: " + Str(statusCode))
        // Examine the response body.
        System.DebugLog("Response body:")
        System.DebugLog(http.LastResponseBody)
    End If

    System.DebugLog("Download failed.")

Else
    System.DebugLog("Download success, response status = " + Str(statusCode))
End If

// Download an XML file:
localFilePath = "/temp/hamlet.xml"
success = http.Download("https://www.chilkatsoft.com/hamlet.xml",localFilePath)
// ...
// Check for errors in the same way as shown above..
// ...

System.DebugLog("OK!")