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Get the Value of a MIME Header Field

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Demonstrates how to get the value of a MIME header field. If the header field is not in the top-level MIME header, we must first navigate to the correct MIME part.

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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
success = 0

' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

set mime = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Mime")

' The contents of this MIME file are shown below, 
' and is also available at https://www.chilkatsoft.com/sampleMime.txt
success = mime.LoadMimeFile("qa_data/mime/sampleMime.txt")
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( mime.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' The MIME used in this example has the following nested structure
' 
' multipart/alternative
'     text/plain
'     multipart/related
'         text/html
'         image/jpeg
' 

' Getting the content of a top-level MIME header is easy.
' MIME header fields are case insensitive.
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Subject = " & mime.GetHeaderField("subject")) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "MIME-Version = " & mime.GetHeaderField("mime-version")) & "</pre>"

' To get a MIME header in a sub-part, first navigate to it..

set mpRelated = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Mime")
success = mime.PartAt(1,mpRelated)
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( mime.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

set pJpg = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Mime")
success = mpRelated.PartAt(1,pJpg)
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( mpRelated.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "JPG Content-ID = " & pJpg.GetHeaderField("content-id")) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "JPG Content-Type = " & pJpg.GetHeaderField("content-type")) & "</pre>"

' --------------------------------------------------------------
' --------------------------------------------------------------
' The MIME sample file loaded at the beginning of this example
' contains the following MIME:

' Subject: Test email.
' Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
' 	boundary="------------DB171738719FB06D67DEBAA0"
' MIME-Version: 1.0
' 
' --------------DB171738719FB06D67DEBAA0
' Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed
' Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
' 
' This is a test.
' 
' --------------DB171738719FB06D67DEBAA0
' Content-Type: multipart/related;
' 	boundary="------------A940F1230E6F0105F03DB2CB"
' 
' --------------A940F1230E6F0105F03DB2CB
' Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
' Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
' 
' <html><head>
' <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
'   </head>
'   <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
'     <p>This is a test.&nbsp; <img src="cid:part1.E16AE3B4.1505C436@chilkatsoft.com" height="20" width="20"></p>
'   </body>
' </html>
' 
' --------------A940F1230E6F0105F03DB2CB
' Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="starfish20.jpg"
' Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
' Content-ID: <part1.E16AE3B4.1505C436@chilkatsoft.com>
' Content-Disposition: inline; filename="starfish20.jpg"
' 
' /9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEASABIAAD//gAmRmlsZSB3cml0dGVuIGJ5IEFkb2JlIFBob3Rvc2hvcD8g
' NC4w/9sAQwAQCwwODAoQDg0OEhEQExgoGhgWFhgxIyUdKDozPTw5Mzg3QEhcTkBEV0U3OFBtUVdf
' YmdoZz5NcXlwZHhcZWdj/9sAQwEREhIYFRgvGhovY0I4QmNjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2Nj
' Y2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2Nj/8IAEQgAFAAUAwERAAIRAQMRAf/EABcAAAMBAAAA
' AAAAAAAAAAAAAAIDBAX/xAAYAQADAQEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAgMEAP/aAAwDAQACEAMQAAAB2kZY
' NNEijWKddfTmLgALWH//xAAbEAACAgMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAgMRAAQSE//aAAgBAQABBQL0XqN+
' pM2aqJGMiqFFCyg7z//EABwRAAICAgMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAERAAIQIQMSUf/aAAgBAwEBPwHqU5aq
' Axx+y1tMQl4elj//xAAcEQEAAQUBAQAAAAAAAAAAAAABEQACEBIhA1H/2gAIAQIBAT8B3Bhqy7Zc
' enyiwmGgDhiOzj//xAAdEAABAwUBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAIREBIhIkFR/9oACAEBAAY/ArZyn+Cg
' xtxWuJaoCnqDuin/xAAcEAABBAMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABABEhYRAxQVH/2gAIAQEAAT8hkEwPUUR9
' DYfE4nxtRpIkBTsayuALIiuY/9oADAMBAAIAAwAAABDWPTsf/8QAGhEAAwADAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
' AAEREDFBIf/aAAgBAwEBPxC0DVPcWm+Ce4OesrkE6bjH/8QAGBEBAQEBAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAREA
' QRD/2gAIAQIBAT8QahMiOc8YgSrnTY3ELclHXn//xAAcEAEBAAIDAQEAAAAAAAAAAAABEQAhMUFx
' EFH/2gAIAQEAAT8Qn3igmSZSj+c4N4zapMy9IjFV98wncN2iuLFsCEbDGxQkI6RO/n//2Q==
' 
' --------------A940F1230E6F0105F03DB2CB--
' 
' --------------DB171738719FB06D67DEBAA0--
' 

%>
</body>
</html>