(Classic ASP) HTTP POST and Stream Response to File

Demonstrates how to send an HTTP POST and stream the response body directly to a file.

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

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Rest")
set rest = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Url")
set url = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Url")
' This URL will emit a response that echos the query params (name and age)
success = url.ParseUrl("https://www.chilkatsoft.com/readPost.asp")

' Connect to the web server
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect(url.Host,url.Port,url.Ssl,bAutoReconnect)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

success = rest.AddQueryParam("name","John")
success = rest.AddQueryParam("age","33")

'  Send the HTTP POST.
success = rest.SendReqFormUrlEncoded("POST",url.Path)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Read the response header.
responseStatusCode = rest.ReadResponseHeader()
If (responseStatusCode < 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Response status code = " & responseStatusCode) & "</pre>"

' We expect a 200 response status if the file data is coming.
' Otherwise, we'll get a string response body with an error message(or no response body).
If (responseStatusCode = 200) Then

    ' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Stream")
    set bodyStream = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Stream")

    ' The stream's sink will be a file.
    bodyStream.SinkFile = "qa_output/out.txt"

    ' Read the response body to the stream.  Given that we've
    ' set the stream's sink to a file, it will stream directly
    ' to the file.
    success = rest.ReadRespBodyStream(bodyStream,1)
    If (success <> 1) Then
        Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
        Response.End
    End If

    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Successfully streamed the response to a file.") & "</pre>"

Else
    errResponse = rest.ReadRespBodyString()
    If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
        Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Else
        Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( errResponse) & "</pre>"
    End If

End If


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