(VB.NET) HTTPS GET Request with Authorization Bearer Header

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Demonstrates how to send an HTTPS GET request with an "Authorization: Bearer " header and get the text response (which could be JSON).

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

Dim http As New Chilkat.Http

' Setting the AuthToken property causes the "Authorization: Bearer <token>" header to be added to each request.
' Set AuthToken equal to your token without the keyword "Bearer".
http.AuthToken = "Your access token"

' Send the GET request and get the response text (assuming you know beforehand that the response will be text, such as JSON, XML, HTML, etc.)
Dim responseText As String = http.QuickGetStr("https://www.example.com/something")
If (http.LastMethodSuccess = False) Then
    ' This means something failed where you did not get an HTTP response.
    Debug.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


' If you get here, then you received an HTTP response where you can check the response status code, and the responseText will contain
' the response body.
Debug.WriteLine("Response status code = " & http.LastStatus)
If (http.LastStatus <> 200) Then
    ' Probably an error from the server.  Examine the HTTP response body.
    Debug.WriteLine(responseText)
    Exit Sub
End If


' If you get here, the response status code was the expected value indicating success,
' if you know the response is JSON, you can load it into a Chilkat JSON object and continue ...
Dim json As New Chilkat.JsonObject
json.EmitCompact = True
json.Load(responseText)
Debug.WriteLine(json.Emit())

' Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON: 
' Generate Parsing Code from JSON

' ...
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