HttpGet

This function initiates an HTTP GET request and waits for a response. The HTTP GET method is used to request a representation of the specified resource.

Usage

CALL "HttpGet" USING
         destination-url
         response-pointer
         response-length
         [extra-headers]
         GIVING
         status-code.

Parameters

destination-url An alphanumeric item specifying the target URL for the GET.
response-pointer A pointer to an alphanumeric item specifying the value of the HTTP response. After use, use NetFree to return memory used to store response.
response-length A numeric item returning the length of the HTTP response to which reponse-pointer points.
extra-headers An optional alphanumeric item specifying extra headers to be added to the HTTP header. This argument consists of name/value pairs separated by hex x"00", and ended with two x"00"'s.
status-code A numeric item that, if nonzero, indicates the request encountered an error. In this case, the string representation of the error may be obtained by calling NetGetError.