Classic ASP

Get a Header Field from an Alternative Body

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetAltHeaderField method, which returns the value of a header field within the Nth alternative body's MIME sub-part. The first argument is the zero-based alternative index; the second is the header field name. This example builds a message with plain-text and HTML alternatives and reads the Content-Type of the first alternative.

Background: A multipart/alternative message is a tree: each alternative body is its own MIME sub-part with its own little header block (Content-Type, Content-Transfer-Encoding, etc.). The top-level Email header methods read the message headers, whereas GetAltHeaderField reaches into a specific alternative's sub-part — useful for inspecting exactly how each representation is typed and encoded.

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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
'  Demonstrates the GetAltHeaderField method, which returns the value of a header field
'  within the Nth alternative body's MIME sub-part.  The 1st argument is the zero-based
'  alternative index; the 2nd is the header field name.

set email = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")

'  Create an email with plain-text and HTML alternatives.
email.SetTextBody "This is the plain-text alternative.","text/plain"
success = email.AddHtmlAlternativeBody("<html><body>This is the HTML alternative.</body></html>")

'  Get the Content-Type header of the first alternative body (index 0).
ct = email.GetAltHeaderField(0,"Content-Type")
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Alternative 0 Content-Type: " & ct) & "</pre>"

%>
</body>
</html>