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HTTP HEAD Request

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Sends an HTTP HEAD request and gets the response.

Note: The response to an HTTP HEAD request is always just the response header. The reponse body is always 0 length (thus the reason it's called a "HEAD" request..)

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

$success = $false

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

$http = New-Object Chilkat.Http

# If the URL uses "https://", then the connection will be TLS.
# Otherwise it will be TCP.

# A failure is when we don't get any response.  It could be a timeout, an inability to connect, etc.
# For example, a "404 Not Found" response is still a response, and thus deemed success in terms of the API..

$resp = New-Object Chilkat.HttpResponse
$success = $http.HttpNoBody("HEAD","https://example-code.com/",$resp)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($http.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# Examine the response.
$("Status Code = " + $resp.StatusCode)
$("Status Line = " + $resp.StatusLine)
$("Status Text = " + $resp.StatusText)
$("Full Response Header:")
$($resp.Header)
$("----")
$numHeaderFields = $resp.NumHeaderFields
$("Num Header Fields: " + $numHeaderFields)

for ($i = 0; $i -le $numHeaderFields - 1; $i++) {
    $($resp.GetHeaderName($i) + ": " + $resp.GetHeaderValue($i))
}