Ruby

SES Verify Email Address

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

See SES VerifyEmailAddress for more information.

Ruby

require 'chilkat'

success = false

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

rest = Chilkat::CkRest.new()

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

# Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
authAws = Chilkat::CkAuthAws.new()
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","VerifyEmailAddress")

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

responseXml = rest.fullRequestNoBody("GET","/")
if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true)
    print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

# A successful response will have a status code equal to 200.
if (rest.get_ResponseStatusCode() != 200)
    print "response status code = " + rest.get_ResponseStatusCode().to_s() + "\n";
    print "response status text = " + rest.responseStatusText() + "\n";
    print "response header: " + rest.responseHeader() + "\n";
    print "response body: " + responseXml + "\n";
    exit
end

# Examine the successful XML response.
xml = Chilkat::CkXml.new()
xml.LoadXml(responseXml)
print xml.getXml() + "\n";

# To get the RequestId
print "RequestId: " + xml.chilkatPath("ResponseMetadata|RequestId|*") + "\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>
#