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SES Verify Email Identity

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Verifies an email identity. This causes a confirmation email to be sent to the specified address.

See SES VerifyEmailIdentity for more information.

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C++
#include <CkRest.h>
#include <CkAuthAws.h>
#include <CkXml.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

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

    CkRest rest;

    // Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server.
    // such as https://email.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
    bool bTls = true;
    int port = 443;
    bool bAutoReconnect = true;
    success = rest.Connect("email.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect);

    // Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
    CkAuthAws authAws;
    authAws.put_AccessKey("AWS_ACCESS_KEY");
    authAws.put_SecretKey("AWS_SECRET_KEY");
    // the region should match our URL above..
    authAws.put_Region("us-west-2");
    authAws.put_ServiceName("ses");

    rest.SetAuthAws(authAws);

    rest.AddQueryParam("Action","VerifyEmailIdentity");

    // Add the email identity to be verified.
    // This causes an email to be sent to the address for the user to verify.
    rest.AddQueryParam("EmailAddress","somebody@someemailaddress.com");

    const char *responseXml = rest.fullRequestNoBody("GET","/");
    if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
        std::cout << rest.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    // A successful response will have a status code equal to 200.
    if (rest.get_ResponseStatusCode() != 200) {
        std::cout << "response status code = " << rest.get_ResponseStatusCode() << "\r\n";
        std::cout << "response status text = " << rest.responseStatusText() << "\r\n";
        std::cout << "response header: " << rest.responseHeader() << "\r\n";
        std::cout << "response body: " << responseXml << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    // Examine the successful XML response.
    CkXml xml;
    xml.LoadXml(responseXml);
    std::cout << xml.getXml() << "\r\n";

    // To get the RequestId
    std::cout << "RequestId: " << xml.chilkatPath("ResponseMetadata|RequestId|*") << "\r\n";

    // A sample successful response:
    // <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
    // <VerifyEmailAddressResponse xmlns="http://ses.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-12-01/">
    //     <ResponseMetadata>
    //         <RequestId>b75924d3-8b61-11e6-877f-2bec40022965</RequestId>
    //     </ResponseMetadata>
    // </VerifyEmailAddressResponse>
    // 
    }