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HTTP POST with Binary Data in Request Body

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Do an HTTPS POST with a binary request body.

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CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 0

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

    DECLARE @http int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Http', @http OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    DECLARE @fac int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.FileAccess', @fac OUT

ERROR: Cannot use pbytes in SQL Server examples...

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @fac, 'ReadEntireFile', @reqBody OUT, 'qa_data/pdf/helloWorld.pdf'

    DECLARE @resp int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.HttpResponse', @resp OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'HttpBinary', @success OUT, 'POST', 'https://example.com/something', @reqBody, 'application/pdf', @resp
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @http, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @fac
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @resp
        RETURN
      END

    DECLARE @responseStatusCode int
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'StatusCode', @responseStatusCode OUT

    PRINT 'Status code: ' + @responseStatusCode

    --  For example, if the response is XML, JSON, HTML, etc.

    PRINT 'response body:'
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'BodyStr', @sTmp0 OUT
    PRINT @sTmp0

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @fac
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @resp


END
GO