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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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Use ChilkatAx-win32.pkg

Procedure Test
    Boolean iSuccess
    Handle hoMime
    Boolean iBAllOccurrences
    Variant vMpRelated
    Handle hoMpRelated
    Variant vPJpg
    Handle hoPJpg
    String sTemp1

    Move False To iSuccess

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

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatMime)) To hoMime
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoMime))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoMime
    End

    // The contents of this MIME file are shown below, 
    // and is also available at https://www.chilkatsoft.com/sampleMime.txt
    Get ComLoadMimeFile Of hoMime "qa_data/mime/sampleMime.txt" To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess = False) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoMime To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    // 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.
    Get ComAddHeaderField Of hoMime "hello-world" "Hello World!" To iSuccess
    // If a header field of the same name already exists, the AddHeaderField
    // method adds a duplicate.
    Get ComAddHeaderField Of hoMime "Subject" "This is the 2nd Subject header." To iSuccess
    Get ComGetEntireHead Of hoMime To sTemp1
    Showln sTemp1
    Showln "-"

    // 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.
    Move True To iBAllOccurrences
    // Remove all occurrences of the Subject header;
    Send ComRemoveHeaderField To hoMime "Subject" iBAllOccurrences
    Get ComGetEntireHead Of hoMime To sTemp1
    Showln sTemp1
    Showln "-"

    // 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.
    Get ComSetHeaderField Of hoMime "hello-world" "Goodbye World." To iSuccess
    Get ComGetEntireHead Of hoMime To sTemp1
    Showln sTemp1
    Showln "-"

    // 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..

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatMime)) To hoMpRelated
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoMpRelated))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoMpRelated
    End
    Get pvComObject of hoMpRelated to vMpRelated
    Get ComPartAt Of hoMime 1 vMpRelated To iSuccess

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatMime)) To hoPJpg
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoPJpg))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoPJpg
    End
    Get pvComObject of hoPJpg to vPJpg
    Get ComPartAt Of hoMpRelated 1 vPJpg To iSuccess

    // Add a header to the image/jpeg sub-header.
    Get ComSetHeaderField Of hoPJpg "CustomHeader" "This is the custom header value." To iSuccess

    // View the entire MIME..
    Get ComGetMime Of hoMime To sTemp1
    Showln sTemp1

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


End_Procedure