this is using the mbed os version 5-13-1

Dependencies:   mbed-http

Revision:
73:6f5021cbe752
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+++ b/source/main-https-chunked-request.cpp	Thu Feb 28 18:13:48 2019 +0000
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+/**
+ * This is an example of doing chunked requests, where you do not need to load the full request body
+ * into memory. You do this by adding a callback to the `send` function of the HTTP/HTTPS request.
+ */
+
+#include "select-demo.h"
+
+#if DEMO == DEMO_HTTPS_CHUNKED_REQUEST
+
+#include "mbed.h"
+#include "mbed_trace.h"
+#include "https_request.h"
+#include "network-helper.h"
+
+/* List of trusted root CA certificates
+ * currently one: Comodo, the CA for reqres.in
+ *
+ * To add more root certificates, just concatenate them.
+ */
+const char SSL_CA_PEM[] = "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----\n"
+    "MIICiTCCAg+gAwIBAgIQH0evqmIAcFBUTAGem2OZKjAKBggqhkjOPQQDAzCBhTEL\n"
+    "MAkGA1UEBhMCR0IxGzAZBgNVBAgTEkdyZWF0ZXIgTWFuY2hlc3RlcjEQMA4GA1UE\n"
+    "BxMHU2FsZm9yZDEaMBgGA1UEChMRQ09NT0RPIENBIExpbWl0ZWQxKzApBgNVBAMT\n"
+    "IkNPTU9ETyBFQ0MgQ2VydGlmaWNhdGlvbiBBdXRob3JpdHkwHhcNMDgwMzA2MDAw\n"
+    "MDAwWhcNMzgwMTE4MjM1OTU5WjCBhTELMAkGA1UEBhMCR0IxGzAZBgNVBAgTEkdy\n"
+    "ZWF0ZXIgTWFuY2hlc3RlcjEQMA4GA1UEBxMHU2FsZm9yZDEaMBgGA1UEChMRQ09N\n"
+    "T0RPIENBIExpbWl0ZWQxKzApBgNVBAMTIkNPTU9ETyBFQ0MgQ2VydGlmaWNhdGlv\n"
+    "biBBdXRob3JpdHkwdjAQBgcqhkjOPQIBBgUrgQQAIgNiAAQDR3svdcmCFYX7deSR\n"
+    "FtSrYpn1PlILBs5BAH+X4QokPB0BBO490o0JlwzgdeT6+3eKKvUDYEs2ixYjFq0J\n"
+    "cfRK9ChQtP6IHG4/bC8vCVlbpVsLM5niwz2J+Wos77LTBumjQjBAMB0GA1UdDgQW\n"
+    "BBR1cacZSBm8nZ3qQUfflMRId5nTeTAOBgNVHQ8BAf8EBAMCAQYwDwYDVR0TAQH/\n"
+    "BAUwAwEB/zAKBggqhkjOPQQDAwNoADBlAjEA7wNbeqy3eApyt4jf/7VGFAkK+qDm\n"
+    "fQjGGoe9GKhzvSbKYAydzpmfz1wPMOG+FDHqAjAU9JM8SaczepBGR7NjfRObTrdv\n"
+    "GDeAU/7dIOA1mjbRxwG55tzd8/8dLDoWV9mSOdY=\n"
+    "-----END CERTIFICATE-----\n";
+
+void dump_response(HttpResponse* res) {
+    printf("Status: %d - %s\n", res->get_status_code(), res->get_status_message().c_str());
+
+    printf("Headers:\n");
+    for (size_t ix = 0; ix < res->get_headers_length(); ix++) {
+        printf("\t%s: %s\n", res->get_headers_fields()[ix]->c_str(), res->get_headers_values()[ix]->c_str());
+    }
+    printf("\nBody (%lu bytes):\n\n%s\n", res->get_body_length(), res->get_body_as_string().c_str());
+}
+
+// Spread the message out over 3 different chunks
+const char * chunks[] = {
+    "{\"message\":",
+    "\"this is an example",
+    " of chunked encoding\"}"
+};
+
+int chunk_ix = 0;
+
+// Callback function, grab the next chunk and return it
+const void * get_chunk(uint32_t* out_size) {
+    // If you don't have any data left, set out_size to 0 and return a null pointer
+    if (chunk_ix == (sizeof(chunks) / sizeof(chunks[0]))) {
+        *out_size = 0;
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    const char *chunk = chunks[chunk_ix];
+    *out_size = strlen(chunk);
+    chunk_ix++;
+
+    return chunk;
+}
+
+int main() {
+    NetworkInterface* network = connect_to_default_network_interface();
+    if (!network) {
+        printf("Cannot connect to the network, see serial output\n");
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    mbed_trace_init();
+
+    // This example also logs the raw request, you can do this by calling 'set_request_log_buffer' on the request
+    uint8_t *request_buffer = (uint8_t*)calloc(2048, 1);
+
+    // POST request to reqres.in
+    {
+        HttpsRequest* post_req = new HttpsRequest(network, SSL_CA_PEM, HTTP_POST, "https://reqres.in/api/users");
+        post_req->set_header("Content-Type", "application/json");
+        post_req->set_request_log_buffer(request_buffer, 2048);
+
+        // If you pass a callback here, the Transfer-Encoding header is automatically set to chunked
+        HttpResponse* post_res = post_req->send(&get_chunk);
+        if (!post_res) {
+            printf("HttpsRequest failed (error code %d)\n", post_req->get_error());
+            return 1;
+        }
+
+        // Log the raw request that went over the line (if you decode the hex you can see the chunked parts)
+        // e.g. in Node.js (take the output from below):
+        // '50 4f 53 54 20'.split(' ').map(c=>parseInt(c,16)).map(c=>String.fromCharCode(c)).join('')
+        printf("\n----- Request buffer -----\n");
+        for (size_t ix = 0; ix < post_req->get_request_log_buffer_length(); ix++) {
+            printf("%02x ", request_buffer[ix]);
+        }
+        printf("\n");
+
+        printf("\n----- HTTPS POST response -----\n");
+        dump_response(post_res);
+
+        delete post_req;
+    }
+
+    wait(osWaitForever);
+}
+
+#endif