VB.NET

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.

VB.NET

Dim success As Boolean = False

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

Dim rest As New Chilkat.Rest

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

' Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
Dim authAws As New Chilkat.AuthAws
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"

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")

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


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


' Examine the successful XML response.
Dim xml As New Chilkat.Xml
xml.LoadXml(responseXml)
Debug.WriteLine(xml.GetXml())

' To get the RequestId
Debug.WriteLine("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>
'