Classic ASP

Get a MIME Header Field Value

Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.GetHeaderField method, which returns the value of the first header field whose name matches case-insensitively. The only argument is the field name; it returns null when no matching field exists.

Note: The file path is relative to the application's current working directory. Absolute paths may also be used. Supply the path to your own file.

Background: This is the everyday way to read a header value — the Subject, a Message-ID, a custom X- header. Because a missing field returns null, the returned value is assigned to a variable and checked rather than used directly, so an absent header is handled cleanly instead of surfacing as an error later. Only the first matching occurrence is returned; iterate by index to see duplicates.

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

set mime = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Mime")
success = mime.LoadMimeFile("qa_data/message.eml")
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( mime.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

'  Return the value of the first header field with a matching (case-insensitive) name.
'  GetHeaderField returns null when no matching field exists, so assign it to a string variable
'  and check for success.
subject = mime.GetHeaderField("Subject")
If (mime.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( mime.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Subject: " & subject) & "</pre>"

%>
</body>
</html>