Visual Basic 6.0

Duplicate curl -u user:password with Chilkat HTTP

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Demonstrates how to duplicate a curl command that uses the -u username:password option. (This assumes HTTP Basic Authentication, and Chilkat requires Basic authentication to be over a TLS connection.)

Duplicates the following curl command:

curl https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/oauth2/token \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "Accept-Language: en_US" \
  -u "Client-Id:Secret" \
  -d "grant_type=client_credentials"

Visual Basic 6.0

Dim success As Long
success = 0

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

Dim http As New ChilkatHttp
Dim req As New ChilkatHttpRequest

' The AddHeader method corresponds to the curl "-H" argument.
req.AddHeader "Accept","application/json"
req.AddHeader "Accept-Language","en_US"

' The curl "-d" argument specifies the HTTP request body.  In this case,
' we're sending an application/x-www-form-urlencoded request, and therefore
' the body contains the URL-encoded query parameters.
req.AddParam "grant_type","client_credentials"

http.Login = "PAYPAL_REST_API_CLIENT_ID"
http.Password = "PAYPAL_REST_API_SECRET"

' Sends a POST request where the Content-Type is application/x-www-form-urlencoded
req.HttpVerb = "POST"
req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

Dim resp As New ChilkatHttpResponse
success = http.HttpReq("https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/oauth2/token",req,resp)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print http.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

If (resp.StatusCode <> 200) Then
    Debug.Print "Error status code: " & resp.StatusCode
    Debug.Print resp.BodyStr
    Exit Sub
End If

' The JSON response is in the resp BodyStr property
Debug.Print resp.BodyStr
Debug.Print "-- Success."