Xojo Plugin

HTTP Methods - GET and DELETE

Demonstrate a method for sending HTTP requests that don't have a request body, such as for GET or DELETE requests. 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.

Dim http As New Chilkat.Http

// Specifiy a session log file so we can see the exact request/response
http.SessionLogFilename = "c:/aaworkarea/sessionLog.txt"

// Perhaps add a custom header or two..
http.SetRequestHeader "x-exz-date","20201012T235046Z"
http.SetRequestHeader "x-exz-id","1234"

// Send a GET request to https://www.example.com/someting?param1=123&param2=abc
Dim url As String
url = "https://www.example.com/someting?param1=123&param2=abc"
Dim resp As New Chilkat.HttpResponse
success = http.HttpNoBody("GET",url,resp)
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(http.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// The GET request that is sent looks like this.
// The Accept and Accept-Encoding headers are automatically added by default.

// 	GET /someting?param1=123&param2=abc HTTP/1.1
// 	Host: www.example.com
// 	Accept: */*
// 	Accept-Encoding: gzip
// 	x-exz-date: 20201012T235046Z
// 	x-exz-id: 1234

// Get the response status
Dim statusCode As Int32
statusCode = resp.StatusCode
System.DebugLog("Response status: " + Str(statusCode))

// Get the response body
System.DebugLog(resp.BodyStr)

// -------------------------------------------------------------
// Let's say we want to send a DELETE request, and we only want to accept an application/json response,
// and we don't want gzipped responses...

// First remove the previously specified custom headers.
http.ClearHeaders 

// Indicate we only accept application/json non-gzipped responses.
http.Accept = "application/json"
http.AllowGzip = False

// Send a DELETE request to https://www.example.com/deleteSomething
url = "https://www.example.com/deleteSomething"
success = http.HttpNoBody("DELETE",url,resp)
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(http.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// The DELETE request that is sent looks like this.
// The empty Accept-Encoding header value means we only want non-compressed responses.

// 	DELETE /deleteSomething HTTP/1.1
// 	Host: www.example.com
// 	Accept: application/json
// 	Accept-Encoding: 

// Get the response status
statusCode = resp.StatusCode
System.DebugLog("Response status: " + Str(statusCode))

// Get the response body
System.DebugLog(resp.BodyStr)