Visual FoxPro

HTTPS GET - Download HTML or any Text Content to a String

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The QuickGetStr method is the simplest way to retrieve a text resource from a web server using an HTTP GET request. The text resource can be HTML, XML, JSON, text, or anything other type of file composed of readable text.

Visual FoxPro

LOCAL loHttp
LOCAL lcStr

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

loHttp = CreateObject('Chilkat.Http')

* Send the HTTP GET and return the content in a string.
lcStr = loHttp.QuickGetStr("https://www.chilkatsoft.com/helloWorld.json")
IF (loHttp.LastMethodSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loHttp.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loHttp
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? lcStr

lcStr = loHttp.QuickGetStr("https://www.chilkatsoft.com/helloWorld.txt")
? lcStr

lcStr = loHttp.QuickGetStr("https://www.chilkatsoft.com/helloWorld.xml")
? lcStr

RELEASE loHttp