Ruby Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

HTTP POST with Binary Data in Request Body

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Do an HTTPS POST with a binary request body. Ruby

require 'chilkat'

success = false

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

http = Chilkat::CkHttp.new()

fac = Chilkat::CkFileAccess.new()

reqBody = Chilkat::CkByteData.new()
success = fac.ReadEntireFile("qa_data/pdf/helloWorld.pdf",reqBody)

resp = Chilkat::CkHttpResponse.new()
success = http.HttpBinary("POST","https://example.com/something",reqBody,"application/pdf",resp)
if (success == false)
    print http.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

responseStatusCode = resp.get_StatusCode()
print "Status code: " + responseStatusCode.to_s() + "\n";

#  For example, if the response is XML, JSON, HTML, etc.
print "response body:" + "\n";
print resp.bodyStr() + "\n";