(Excel) Interfax -- Fax a Single Document

Demonstrates how to use the REST API to fax a single document using interfax.net. See Send fax for more information.

This example will send a POST with these potential query params:

POST /outbound/faxes?faxNumber={faxnumber}[&contact={string}&postponeTime={datetime}
&retriesToPerform={number}&csid={string}&pageHeader={string}&reference={string}
&replyAddress={email}&pageSize={a4|letter|legal|b4}&fitToPage={scale|noscale}
&pageOrientation={portrait|landscape}&resolution={fine|standard}&rendering={greyscale|bw}]

The HTTP POST request to be sent will look like this:

POST /outbound/faxes?faxNumber={faxnumber}&... HTTP/1.1
Host: rest.interfax.net
Authorization: Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ==
Content-Type: application/msword
 
{binary content goes here}

Note: The Content-Type header field should match type type of document. For example, use "application/pdf" to fax a PDF. To find out what content-type header field values should be used, Google "MIME content type for XYZ" where XYZ describes the type of document. For example, one might Google "MIME content type for Excel xls", and the answer would be "application/vnd.ms-excel".

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

Dim rest As Chilkat.Rest
Set rest = Chilkat.NewRest

' Use Basic Authentication.
' Use your InterFAX login and password.

success = rest.SetAuthBasic("INTERFAX_LOGIN","INTERFAX_PASSWORD")

' Connect to the Interfax REST server.
' Make sure TLS is used.  One should NEVER send a username+password using Basic authentication
' over a non-secure connection.

bTls = True

port = 443

bAutoReconnect = True
success = rest.Connect("rest.interfax.net",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)

' Indicate the Content-Type of our upload.  
' We're faxing a PDF, so set the content-type to application/pdf.
success = rest.AddHeader("Content-Type","application/pdf")

' We can add an "Expect: 100-continue" header so that if the request is rejected
' by the server immediately after receiving the request header, it can respond
' and the client (Chilkat) can avoid sending the file data.
' (this is optional)
success = rest.AddHeader("Expect","100-continue")

Dim fileStream As Chilkat.Stream
Set fileStream = Chilkat.NewStream

' The stream's source will be a file.
fileStream.SourceFile = "qa_data/pdf/fishing.pdf"

' Add query params.
' The fax number format is "+1-212-3456789"
Dim success As Boolean
success = rest.AddQueryParam("faxNumber","MY-FAX-NUMBER")
success = rest.AddQueryParam("pageSize","letter")
' Add any other desired query params ...

' The response is a 0-length "201 Created" response.
' Therefore the responseStr will be empty.

responseStr = rest.FullRequestStream("POST","/outbound/faxes",fileStream)
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 201) Then
    ' The response was not successful.
    ' We can examine the response code, header and status text:
    Debug.Print "Response status code: "; rest.ResponseStatusCode
    Debug.Print "Response status text: "; rest.ResponseStatusText
    Debug.Print "Response header: "; rest.ResponseHeader
    Debug.Print "FAX failed."
Else
    Debug.Print "FAX sent."
End If