(Perl) HTTPS GET Request with Authorization Bearer Header

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Demonstrates how to send an HTTPS GET request with an "Authorization: Bearer " header and get the text response (which could be JSON).

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use chilkat();

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

$http = chilkat::CkHttp->new();

# Setting the AuthToken property causes the "Authorization: Bearer <token>" header to be added to each request.
# Set AuthToken equal to your token without the keyword "Bearer".
$http->put_AuthToken("Your access token");

# Send the GET request and get the response text (assuming you know beforehand that the response will be text, such as JSON, XML, HTML, etc.)
$responseText = $http->quickGetStr("https://www.example.com/something");
if ($http->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {
    # This means something failed where you did not get an HTTP response.
    print $http->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# If you get here, then you received an HTTP response where you can check the response status code, and the responseText will contain
# the response body.
print "Response status code = " . $http->get_LastStatus() . "\r\n";
if ($http->get_LastStatus() != 200) {
    # Probably an error from the server.  Examine the HTTP response body.
    print $responseText . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# If you get here, the response status code was the expected value indicating success,
# if you know the response is JSON, you can load it into a Chilkat JSON object and continue ...
$json = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$json->put_EmitCompact(1);
$json->Load($responseText);
print $json->emit() . "\r\n";

# Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON: 
# Generate Parsing Code from JSON

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