Read binary data in TSQL through HTTP GET - sql-server

Question

I need to export some images into my SQL Server through HTTP URL.
I've found article about exporting of XML data:
sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1;
GO
RECONFIGURE;
GO
sp_configure 'Ole Automation Procedures', 1;
GO
RECONFIGURE;
GO
Declare #Object as Int;
Declare #ResponseText as Varchar(8000);
Declare #Url as Varchar(MAX);
select #Url = 'http://somexml.com/xmlfile.xml'
Exec sp_OACreate 'MSXML2.XMLHTTP', #Object OUT;
Exec sp_OAMethod #Object, 'open', NULL, 'get', #Url, 'false'
Exec sp_OAMethod #Object, 'send'
Exec sp_OAMethod #Object, 'responseText', #ResponseText OUTPUT
Exec sp_OADestroy #Object
--load into Xml
Declare #XmlResponse as xml;
select #ResponseText
Also during research I've found that I should use ADODB.Stream for binary data. But I can't figure out how to read this object using approach described above.
Is there a way for reading binary data in pure TSQL or I should use CLR for this?
Thanks a lot for helping.

Answer 1

I had the same question as you, and found how to do it!
Here is my sql to do it (it supports retrieval of text and binary data):
EXEC sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1;
GO
RECONFIGURE;
GO
EXEC sp_configure 'Ole Automation Procedures', 1;
GO
RECONFIGURE;
GO
declare #xmlObject as int
declare #responseText as varchar(max)
declare #responseBody as varbinary(max)
declare #status as int
declare #url as varchar(2048)
select #url = 'http://someurl.com/someimage.jpg'
exec sp_OACreate 'MSXML2.XMLHTTP', #xmlObject OUT;
exec sp_OAMethod #xmlObject, 'open', NULL, 'get', #url, 'false'
exec sp_OAMethod #xmlObject, 'send'
exec sp_OAMethod #xmlObject, 'status', #status OUTPUT
exec sp_OAMethod #xmlObject, 'responsetext', #responseText OUTPUT
declare #responseTable as table ( body varbinary(max) )
INSERT INTO #responseTable exec sp_OAMethod #xmlObject, 'responsebody'
exec sp_OADestroy #xmlObject
select #status
select #responseText
select #responseBody=body from #responseTable
select #responseBody
Hope this helps somone out there :)