(C#) Getting the HTTP Response after an Asynchronous HTTP Request Completes

Some HTTP methods return an HTTP response object. This example demonstrates how to obtain the HTTP response object for such a method when calling asynchronously.

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//  All Chilkat classes can be unlocked at once at the beginning of a program
//  by calling UnlockBundle.  It requires a Bundle unlock code.
Chilkat.Global chilkatGlob = new Chilkat.Global();
bool success = chilkatGlob.UnlockBundle("Anything for 30-day trial.");
if (success != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(chilkatGlob.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Chilkat.Http http = new Chilkat.Http();

//  Call the async version of the QuickGetObj method to return a task object.
//  The task object is loaded, but is in the Inert state -- meaning it is
//  not yet scheduled to run on Chilkat's background thread pool.
Chilkat.Task task = http.QuickGetObjAsync("https://stackexchange.com");
if (http.LastMethodSuccess != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Schedule the task for running on the thread pool.  This changes the task's state
//  from Inert to Live.
success = task.Run();
if (success != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(task.LastErrorText);

    return;
}

//  The application is now free to do anything else
//  while the HTML page is being downloaded.

//  For this example, we'll simply sleep and periodically
//  check to see if the QuickGetObjAsync if finished.
while (task.Finished != true) {

    //  Sleep 100 ms.
    task.SleepMs(100);

}

//  A finished task could be one that was canceled, aborted, or truly finished.

//  If the task was "canceled", it was canceled prior to actually starting.  This could
//  happen if the task was canceled while waiting in a thread pool queue to be scheduled by Chilkat's
//  background thread pool scheduler.

//  If the task was "aborted", it indicates that it was canceled while running in a background thread.
//  The ResultErrorText will likely indicate that the task was aborted.

//  If the task "completed", then it ran to completion, but the actual success/failure of the method
//  is determined by the result obtained via a GetResult* method.  (A "completed" task will
//  have a StatusInt equal to 7.   If the task finished, but was not completed, then it must've
//  been aborted or canceled:
if (task.StatusInt != 7) {
    Debug.WriteLine("Task did not complete.");
    Debug.WriteLine("task status: " + task.Status);

    return;
}

//  The synchronous call to QuickGetObj would return an HTTP response object.  To get this
//  response object for the async call, we instantiate a new/empty HTTP response object,
//  and then load it from the completed task.
Chilkat.HttpResponse resp = new Chilkat.HttpResponse();

success = resp.LoadTaskResult(task);
if (success != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(resp.LastErrorText);

    return;
}

//  Now that we have the response, we can get all of the information:

Debug.WriteLine("status code: " + Convert.ToString(resp.StatusCode));
Debug.WriteLine("response header: " + resp.Header);

//  ...