Function requestUrl

examples/http/Http.cpp:17–74

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Request a URL ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////

///
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
void requestUrl(const std::string& url, int redirectsRemaining)
{
    // Split the URL up into host and resource parts
    const auto resourcePos = url.find('/', url.find("://") + 3);
    const auto resource    = (resourcePos != std::string::npos) ? url.substr(resourcePos) : std::string("/");
    const auto host        = url.substr(0, resourcePos);
    const auto portPos     = host.find(':', 6);
    const auto port        = (portPos != std::string::npos) ? host.substr(portPos + 1) : std::string("0");

    // Create a new HTTP client
    sf::Http http;

    http.setHost(host.substr(0, portPos), static_cast<unsigned short>(std::stoi(port)));

    // Prepare a request to get the resource
    const sf::Http::Request request(resource);

    // Send the request
    const sf::Http::Response response = http.sendRequest(request);

    // Check the numeric status code and display the result
    const auto statusNum = static_cast<int>(response.getStatus());
    std::cout << "Server responded with HTTP status " << statusNum << '\n' << std::endl;

    // Output body if its content type is text-based and not compressed
    if (response.getField("Content-Type").find("text") == 0)
    {
        if (const auto encoding = response.getField("Content-Encoding"); encoding.empty())
        {
            std::cout << response.getBody() << std::endl;
        }
        else
        {
            std::cout << encoding << " compressed body content, length: " << response.getBody().size() << '\n'
                      << std::endl;
        }
    }

    // Follow redirections (HTTP status codes 301 to 308)
    static constexpr auto movedPermanently  = 301;
    static constexpr auto permanentRedirect = 308;
    if (statusNum >= movedPermanently && statusNum <= permanentRedirect)
    {
        if (redirectsRemaining == 0)
        {
            std::cout << "Maximum number of redirects reached" << std::endl;
            return;
        }

        if (auto nextUrl = response.getField("Location"); !nextUrl.empty())
        {
            if ((nextUrl.find("http://") != 0) && (nextUrl.find("https://") != 0))
                nextUrl = host + nextUrl;
            std::cout << "Following redirect to " << nextUrl << '\n' << std::endl;
            requestUrl(nextUrl, redirectsRemaining - 1);
        }
    }
}