Classic ASP

Get an Alternative Body into a BinData

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.GetAlternativeBodyBd method, which copies the contents of the Nth alternative body into a BinData object. The first alternative body is at index 0, and it should only be called when NumAlternatives is greater than 0. This example builds a message with plain-text and HTML alternatives and copies the first into a BinData.

Background: This is the binary counterpart to GetAlternativeBody (which returns text). Reading an alternative into a BinData preserves the exact bytes — important when a body part uses a binary or unusual transfer encoding, or when you intend to hash it or write it out verbatim rather than decode it to a string.

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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
success = 0

'  Demonstrates the GetAlternativeBodyBd method, which copies the contents of the Nth
'  alternative body into a BinData object.  The first alternative body is at index 0; call
'  only when NumAlternatives is greater than 0.

set email = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
email.Subject = "GetAlternativeBodyBd example"

email.SetTextBody "This is the plain-text alternative.","text/plain"
success = email.AddHtmlAlternativeBody("<html><body>This is the HTML alternative.</body></html>")

'  Copy the first alternative body (index 0) into a BinData object.
set bd = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.BinData")

success = email.GetAlternativeBodyBd(0,bd)
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Alternative 0 size (bytes) = " & bd.NumBytes) & "</pre>"

%>
</body>
</html>