Ruby Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Send XMLHttpRequest and Get Response

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Demonstrates how to send an HTTP XML request and retrieve the response. 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()

#  The XML sent in the body of the request is application
#  specified -- it should contain whatever the server-side
#  application is expecting..
xmlStr = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><appXml><something>123</something></appXml>"

urlEndpoint = "http://www.chilkatsoft.com/xmlEcho.asp"
xmlCharset = "utf-8"

resp = Chilkat::CkHttpResponse.new()
success = http.HttpStr("POST",urlEndpoint,xmlStr,xmlCharset,"application/xml",resp)
if (success == false)
    print http.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  The raw HTTP request sent by the above call is:

#  POST /xmlEcho.asp HTTP/1.1
#  Content-Type: text/xml
#  Host: www.chilkatsoft.com
#  Accept: */*
#  Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*; q=0.7
#  Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
#  Accept-Encoding: gzip
#  Content-Length: 81
#  
#  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><appXml><something>123</something></appXml>

#  Examine the Body of the HTTP response
#  This would be the XML response sent by the server.
print resp.bodyStr() + "\n";