(PowerShell) Cancel HTTP Get Async Task if not Completed after a Max Time

Demonstrates how to wait a maximum amount of time for an asynchronous task to completed. If not completed in the allotted amount of time, the task is cancelled.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-9.5.0-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

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

$http = New-Object Chilkat.Http

# Set some timeouts, in seconds:
$http.ConnectTimeout = 15
# ReadTimeout specifies the max number of seconds that must elapse when no additional data is received before
# timing out.  For example, if a server sends a 300 byte response at the rate of 1 byte per second, then
# ReadTimeout would never cause a timeout because there is never a 15 second interval when nothing arrives.
$http.ReadTimeout = 15

$url = "https://your-url.com/something"
$task = $http.QuickGetStrAsync($url)
$task.Run()

# Wait a maximum of waitMaxMs for the task (i.e. the HTTP GET) to complete.
# The Wait method returns when the task has been canceled, aborted, or completed, or when the max allotted time has passed.
$waitMaxMs = 20000
$task.Wait($waitMaxMs)

# At this point, the GET may or may not have completed.  
# Rather than checking the Task status, we can call task.Cancel because
# if the Task is no longer running (because it already completed, was canceled or aborted), then the 
# call to Cancel is a NO-OP (meaning it does nothing and the Task's status is unaffected).
# Also, task.Cancel returns $true if the task was in the "queued" or "running" state and was canceled or aborted. 
# The method returns $false if the task has any other status.
$wasCanceled = $task.Cancel()
if ($wasCanceled -eq $true) {
    $("The HTTP GET took too long and was canceled.")
}
else {
    # Find out what happened.
    if ($task.StatusInt -eq 7) {
        # The task completed, which means the background thread's call to QuickGetStr completed
        # with success or failure.  Find out which...
        if ($task.TaskSuccess -eq $true) {
            # Get the string response for the call to QuickGetStr (which happened in Chilkat's background thread).
            $responseStr = $task.GetResultString()
            $($responseStr)
            $("HTTP GET successful!")
        }
        else {
            $("HTTP GET failed prior to waitMaxMs...")
            $($task.ResultErrorText)
        }

    }
    else {
        # The task must've been canceled or aborted by some other means..
        $("Task did not complete.  Final status: " + $task.Status)
    }

}