[fpc-pascal] question about fphttpclient

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2017, Ched wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I use with great success (and pleasure!) the unit fphttpclient under winxp, 
> mageia and raspbian with some code like
>
> WITH TFPHTTPCLIENT.CREATE(NIL) DO
>   BEGIN
>      REP:=GET(REQ);
>      FREE;
>   END;
>
> after having defined REQ (+initialisation with some url) and REP as 
> ansistring's. To download text and html pages, that works very nice.
>
> My questions :
> - Can I use the same code to download binary data like gzipped files with no 
> "chance" that the content is translated to a special codepage ?

Yes.

> - How can I have access to the date and size informations on the server side 
> ?

These are reported in the headers.

Michael.