(Java) Socket Convenience Method: BuildHttpGetRequest

Demonstrates the BuildHttpGetRequest method.

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import com.chilkatsoft.*;

public class ChilkatExample {

  static {
    try {
        System.loadLibrary("chilkat");
    } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
      System.err.println("Native code library failed to load.\n" + e);
      System.exit(1);
    }
  }

  public static void main(String argv[])
  {
    // The BuildHttpGetRequest method is a convenience method for building
    // an HTTP GET request.  Normally, an application would use Chilkat's HTTP or REST API's
    // for sending HTTP requests.  

    CkSocket socket = new CkSocket();

    String url = "http://www.chilkatsoft.com/test.asp?x=123&y=456";
    String reqStr = socket.buildHttpGetRequest(url);
    System.out.println(reqStr);
    System.out.println("----");

    // The result is:

    // 	GET /test.asp?x=123&y=456 HTTP/1.1
    // 	Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
    // 	Connection: keep-alive
    // 	User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
    // 	Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
    // 	Host: www.chilkatsoft.com

    // The result is meant to look like a request from a browser.

    // The same thing can be done using the Url and HttpRequest classes, but with more flexibility.

    CkHttpRequest req = new CkHttpRequest();
    req.SetFromUrl(url);
    reqStr = req.generateRequestText();
    System.out.println(reqStr);
    System.out.println("----");

    // The result is:

    // 	GET /test.asp?x=123&y=456 HTTP/1.1
    // 	Host: domain

    // Add some headers..
    req.AddHeader("Host","www.chilkatsoft.com");
    req.AddHeader("Accept-Language","en-us,en;q=0.5");
    req.AddHeader("Some-Other-Header","123456");

    reqStr = req.generateRequestText();
    System.out.println(reqStr);

    // The result is now:

    // 	GET /test.asp?x=123&y=456 HTTP/1.1
    // 	Host: www.chilkatsoft.com
    // 	Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
    // 	Some-Other-Header: 123456
  }
}