(Perl) Socket Convenience Method: BuildHttpGetRequest

Demonstrates the BuildHttpGetRequest method.

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use chilkat();

# The BuildHttpGetRequest method is a convenience method for building
# an HTTP GET request.  Normally, an application would use Chilkat's HTTP or REST API's
# for sending HTTP requests.  

$socket = chilkat::CkSocket->new();

$url = "http://www.chilkatsoft.com/test.asp?x=123&y=456";
$reqStr = $socket->buildHttpGetRequest($url);
print $reqStr . "\r\n";
print "----" . "\r\n";

# The result is:

# 	GET /test.asp?x=123&y=456 HTTP/1.1
# 	Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
# 	Connection: keep-alive
# 	User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
# 	Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
# 	Host: www.chilkatsoft.com

# The result is meant to look like a request from a browser.

# The same thing can be done using the Url and HttpRequest classes, but with more flexibility.

$req = chilkat::CkHttpRequest->new();
$req->SetFromUrl($url);
$reqStr = $req->generateRequestText();
print $reqStr . "\r\n";
print "----" . "\r\n";

# The result is:

# 	GET /test.asp?x=123&y=456 HTTP/1.1
# 	Host: domain

# Add some headers..
$req->AddHeader("Host","www.chilkatsoft.com");
$req->AddHeader("Accept-Language","en-us,en;q=0.5");
$req->AddHeader("Some-Other-Header","123456");

$reqStr = $req->generateRequestText();
print $reqStr . "\r\n";

# The result is now:

# 	GET /test.asp?x=123&y=456 HTTP/1.1
# 	Host: www.chilkatsoft.com
# 	Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
# 	Some-Other-Header: 123456