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Socket Convenience Method: BuildHttpGetRequest

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Demonstrates the BuildHttpGetRequest method.

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#include <C_CkSocketW.h>
#include <C_CkHttpRequestW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    HCkSocketW socket;
    const wchar_t *url;
    const wchar_t *reqStr;
    HCkHttpRequestW req;

    // The BuildHttpGetRequest method is a convenience method for building
    // an HTTP GET request.  Normally, an application would use Chilkat's HTTP or REST API's
    // for sending HTTP requests.  

    socket = CkSocketW_Create();

    url = L"http://www.chilkatsoft.com/test.asp?x=123&y=456";
    reqStr = CkSocketW_buildHttpGetRequest(socket,url);
    wprintf(L"%s\n",reqStr);
    wprintf(L"----\n");

    // The result is:

    // 	GET /test.asp?x=123&y=456 HTTP/1.1
    // 	Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
    // 	Connection: keep-alive
    // 	User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
    // 	Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
    // 	Host: www.chilkatsoft.com

    // The result is meant to look like a request from a browser.

    // The same thing can be done using the Url and HttpRequest classes, but with more flexibility.

    req = CkHttpRequestW_Create();
    CkHttpRequestW_SetFromUrl(req,url);
    reqStr = CkHttpRequestW_generateRequestText(req);
    wprintf(L"%s\n",reqStr);
    wprintf(L"----\n");

    // The result is:

    // 	GET /test.asp?x=123&y=456 HTTP/1.1
    // 	Host: domain

    // Add some headers..
    CkHttpRequestW_AddHeader(req,L"Host",L"www.chilkatsoft.com");
    CkHttpRequestW_AddHeader(req,L"Accept-Language",L"en-us,en;q=0.5");
    CkHttpRequestW_AddHeader(req,L"Some-Other-Header",L"123456");

    reqStr = CkHttpRequestW_generateRequestText(req);
    wprintf(L"%s\n",reqStr);

    // The result is now:

    // 	GET /test.asp?x=123&y=456 HTTP/1.1
    // 	Host: www.chilkatsoft.com
    // 	Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
    // 	Some-Other-Header: 123456


    CkSocketW_Dispose(socket);
    CkHttpRequestW_Dispose(req);

    }