Download a Binary REST Response into BinData

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Demonstrates Rest.FullRequestNoBodyBd, which sends a request with no body and stores the binary response body in a BinData.

The file paths are relative to the application's current working directory. Absolute paths may also be used. Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

Dim success As Boolean
success = False

Dim rest As New Chilkat.Rest
Dim bTls As Boolean
bTls = True
Dim bAutoReconnect As Boolean
bAutoReconnect = True
success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(rest.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

//  The file paths are relative to the application's current working directory.  Absolute paths
//  may also be used.  Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

//  FullRequestNoBodyBd sends a request with no body and stores the binary response body in a
//  BinData.  This is appropriate when the response is binary, such as an image or file download.
Dim bdResponse As New Chilkat.BinData
success = rest.FullRequestNoBodyBd("GET","/api/images/1",bdResponse)
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(rest.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

Dim bSaved As Boolean
bSaved = bdResponse.WriteFile("qa_output/image.png")
If (bSaved <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog("Failed to save the response body.")
    Return
End If

System.DebugLog("Downloaded " + Str(bdResponse.NumBytes) + " bytes.")