(C++) HTTP HEAD Request

Sends an HTTP HEAD request and gets the response.

Note: The response to an HTTP HEAD request is always just the response header. The reponse body is always 0 length (thus the reason it's called a "HEAD" request..)

Chilkat C/C++ Library Downloads
MS Visual C/C++ Linux/CentOS C/C++ Alpine Linux C/C++ MAC OS X C/C++	armhf/aarch64 C/C++ C++ Builder iOS C/C++ Android C/C++ Win Mobile 5.0/Pocket PC 2003	Solaris C/C++ FreeBSD C/C++ OpenBSD C/C++ MinGW C/C++

#include <CkHttp.h>
#include <CkHttpResponse.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    CkHttp http;

    // If the URL uses "https://", then the connection will be TLS.
    // Otherwise it will be TCP.
    CkHttpResponse *resp = http.GetHead("https://example-code.com/");
    if (http.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
        // A failure is when we don't get any response.  It could be a timeout, an inability to connect, etc.
        // For example, a "404 Not Found" response is still a response, and thus deemed success in terms of the API..
        std::cout << http.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    // Examine the response.
    std::cout << "Status Code = " << resp->get_StatusCode() << "\r\n";
    std::cout << "Status Line = " << resp->statusLine() << "\r\n";
    std::cout << "Status Text = " << resp->statusText() << "\r\n";
    std::cout << "Full Response Header:" << "\r\n";
    std::cout << resp->header() << "\r\n";
    std::cout << "----" << "\r\n";
    int numHeaderFields = resp->get_NumHeaderFields();
    std::cout << "Num Header Fields: " << numHeaderFields << "\r\n";
    int i;
    for (i = 0; i <= numHeaderFields - 1; i++) {
        std::cout << resp->getHeaderName(i) << ": " << resp->getHeaderValue(i) << "\r\n";
    }

    delete resp;
    }