(PHP ActiveX) HTTP GET -- Read Response from Stream

Demonstrates how to send an HTTP GET for a web page, and then read the response from a Stream. The purpose is to fulfill a situation such as the following: "I have a URL and just want the <head> </head> portion of the HTML. This would avoid having to download a potentially enormous web page just to get at header information, such as the <styles>."

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ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

Note: The php_com_dotnet.dll may need to be enabled inside of php.ini.

<?php

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

// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.Rest')
$rest = new COM("Chilkat.Rest");

// In this example, we'll get the web page at http://www.nytimes.com/pages/business/index.html
// The domain is "www.nytimes.com", and the path is "/pages/business/index.html"

// If we have only the full URL to begin with, it can be loaded into the Chilkat URL object to
// access the parts:
// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.Url')
$url = new COM("Chilkat.Url");
$url->ParseUrl('http://www.nytimes.com/pages/business/index.html');

$bAutoReconnect = 1;
$success = $rest->Connect($url->Host,$url->Port,$url->Ssl,$bAutoReconnect);

// Send the GET request (This sends the GET request, but does not read the response.)
$success = $rest->SendReqNoBody('GET',$url->Path);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Read the response header.
$responseStatusCode = $rest->ReadResponseHeader();
if ($responseStatusCode < 0) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Response status code = ' . $responseStatusCode . "\n";

// We expect a 200 response status.
if ($responseStatusCode != 200) {

    // If the response status code is not 200, we could check for a redirect status code and 
    // then follow it, read the entire response (as shown here), or just call rest.Disconnect
    $errResponse = $rest->readRespBodyString();
    if ($rest->LastMethodSuccess != 1) {
        print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    }
    else {
        print $errResponse . "\n";
    }

    exit;
}

// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.Stream')
$bodyStream = new COM("Chilkat.Stream");
// Set a 10 second read timeout for the stream. 
// (Give up if no data arrives within 10 seconds after calling a read method.)
$bodyStream->ReadTimeoutMs = 10000;

// Create a background thread task to read the response body (which feeds
// it to the bodyStream object.)
// readResponseBodyTask is a Chilkat.Task
$readResponseBodyTask = $rest->ReadRespBodyStreamAsync($bodyStream,1);

// Start the task. 
$success = $readResponseBodyTask->Run();

// Read the HTTP response body until the "</head>" is seen, or until
// the end-of-stream is reached.

// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.StringBuilder')
$sbBody = new COM("Chilkat.StringBuilder");
$exitLoop = 0;
while (!$exitLoop and ($bodyStream->EndOfStream != 1)) {

    $bodyText = $bodyStream->readString();
    if ($bodyStream->LastMethodSuccess == 1) {
        $sbBody->Append($bodyText);
        if ($sbBody->Contains('</head>',0)) {
            $exitLoop = 1;
        }

    }
    else {
        $exitLoop = 1;
    }

}

// Cancel the remainder of the task...
$readResponseBodyTask->Cancel();

// Ensure we're disconnected from the server.
$maxWaitMs = 50;
$rest->Disconnect($maxWaitMs);

print '----' . "\n";
print $sbBody->getAsString() . "\n";
print '----' . "\n";
print 'Successfully received the body up to the desired point.' . "\n";

?>