(Xojo Plugin) Socket Convenience Method: BuildHttpGetRequest

Demonstrates the BuildHttpGetRequest method.

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// 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.  

Dim socket As New Chilkat.Socket

Dim url As String
url = "http://www.chilkatsoft.com/test.asp?x=123&y=456"
Dim reqStr As String
reqStr = socket.BuildHttpGetRequest(url)
System.DebugLog(reqStr)
System.DebugLog("----")

// 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.

Dim req As New Chilkat.HttpRequest
req.SetFromUrl url
reqStr = req.GenerateRequestText()
System.DebugLog(reqStr)
System.DebugLog("----")

// The result is:

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

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

reqStr = req.GenerateRequestText()
System.DebugLog(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