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Add, Remove, Update MIME Header Fields

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Demonstrates how to add, remove, or update the content of MIME header fields.

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bool success = false;

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

Chilkat.Mime mime = new 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 == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(mime.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

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

//  Adding a top-level MIME header is easy.
mime.AddHeaderField("hello-world","Hello World!");
//  If a header field of the same name already exists, the AddHeaderField
//  method adds a duplicate.
mime.AddHeaderField("Subject","This is the 2nd Subject header.");
Debug.WriteLine(mime.GetEntireHead());
Debug.WriteLine("-");

//  The top-level header now looks like this:
//  
//  	Subject: Test email.
//  	Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------DB171738719FB06D67DEBAA0"
//  	MIME-Version: 1.0
//  	hello-world: Hello World!
//  	Subject: This is the 2nd Subject header.
//  

//  The RemoveHeaderField method can remove the 1st occurrance, or all occurrences.
bool bAllOccurrences = true;
//  Remove all occurrences of the Subject header;
mime.RemoveHeaderField("Subject",bAllOccurrences);
Debug.WriteLine(mime.GetEntireHead());
Debug.WriteLine("-");

//  After removing all Subject header fields, the top-level header now looks like this:
//  
//  Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------DB171738719FB06D67DEBAA0"
//  MIME-Version: 1.0
//  hello-world: Hello World!
//  

//  The content of a header field can be updated by calling SetHeaderField.
//  If the header field does not already exist, it is added.  Otherwise it is updated.
//  Note: The order of header fields SHOULD never matter.
mime.SetHeaderField("hello-world","Goodbye World.");
Debug.WriteLine(mime.GetEntireHead());
Debug.WriteLine("-");

//  Now we have:
//  
//  	Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------DB171738719FB06D67DEBAA0"
//  	MIME-Version: 1.0
//  	hello-world: Goodbye World.
//  

//  To add/update/delete header fields in sub-parts, navigate to
//  the sub-part and do the same..

Chilkat.Mime mpRelated = new Chilkat.Mime();
mime.PartAt(1,mpRelated);

Chilkat.Mime pJpg = new Chilkat.Mime();
mpRelated.PartAt(1,pJpg);

//  Add a header to the image/jpeg sub-header.
pJpg.SetHeaderField("CustomHeader","This is the custom header value.");

//  View the entire MIME..
Debug.WriteLine(mime.GetMime());

//  --------------------------------------------------------------
//  --------------------------------------------------------------
//  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--
//