Ruby

WebDAV PROPFIND

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Demonstrates how to send a WebDAV PROPFIND HTTP request. Ruby

require 'chilkat'

success = false

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

req = Chilkat::CkHttpRequest.new()
http = Chilkat::CkHttp.new()

# The PROPFIND request to be sent will look similar to this:
# This is from RFC 4918 at http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4918#section-9.1.3

#      PROPFIND /file HTTP/1.1
#      Host: www.example.com
#      Content-type: application/xml; charset="utf-8"
#      Content-Length: xxxx
# 
#      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
#      <D:propfind xmlns:D="DAV:">
#        <D:prop xmlns:R="http://ns.example.com/boxschema/">
#          <R:bigbox/>
#          <R:author/>
#          <R:DingALing/>
#          <R:Random/>
#        </D:prop>
#      </D:propfind>

# Build the HTTP request object. 

# The HTTP verb should be "PROPFIND"
req.put_HttpVerb("PROPFIND")

# The Content-Type should be "application/xml", and
# the charset attribute in the Content-Type header should
# be utf-8:
req.put_ContentType("application/xml")
req.put_Charset("utf-8")
req.put_SendCharset(true)

# Load the request body with the XML.  Your application 
# is free to construct the XML using any means desired.
# Once the XML is prepared, load it into the request body
# like this:
xmlBody = "This is the string that should contain the XML body..."
success = req.LoadBodyFromString(xmlBody,"utf-8")
if (success == false)
    print req.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

# For this example, pretend the WEBDAV endpoint is:
# https://webdav.chilkatstorage.com/

# Note: There is no actual "chilkatstorage.com" site.  
# This is only an example...

# The "path" part of this endpoint URL is simply "/".

# Send the request to the WebDAV endpoint using 
# the HttpSReq method:

resp = Chilkat::CkHttpResponse.new()
success = http.HttpSReq("webdav.chilkatstorage.com",443,true,req,resp)
if (success == false)
    print http.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

# Get the XML response:

responseXml = resp.bodyStr()
print "XML Response: " + responseXml + "\n";

# Get the response status code, such as 207

statusCode = resp.get_StatusCode()
print "StatusCode = " + statusCode.to_s() + "\n";