(Visual Basic 6.0) 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.

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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 New ChilkatRest

' Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server.
' such as https://email.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
Dim bTls As Long
bTls = 1
Dim port As Long
port = 443
Dim bAutoReconnect As Long
bAutoReconnect = 1
Dim success As Long
success = rest.Connect("email.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)

' Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
Dim authAws As New ChilkatAuthAws
authAws.AccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
authAws.SecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"
' the region should match our URL above..
authAws.Region = "us-west-2"
authAws.ServiceName = "ses"

success = rest.SetAuthAws(authAws)

success = 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.
success = rest.AddQueryParam("EmailAddress","somebody@someemailaddress.com")

Dim responseXml As String
responseXml = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' A successful response will have a status code equal to 200.
If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    Debug.Print "response status code = " & rest.ResponseStatusCode
    Debug.Print "response status text = " & rest.ResponseStatusText
    Debug.Print "response header: " & rest.ResponseHeader
    Debug.Print "response body: " & responseXml
    Exit Sub
End If

' Examine the successful XML response.
Dim xml As New ChilkatXml
success = xml.LoadXml(responseXml)
Debug.Print xml.GetXml()

' To get the RequestId
Debug.Print "RequestId: " & xml.ChilkatPath("ResponseMetadata|RequestId|*")

' 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>
'