Classic ASP

Get a Summary of the MIME Structure

Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.GetStructure method, which returns a concise summary of the MIME tree. The only argument selects the format: xml for XML, or text (the default for any other value) for a plain-text outline.

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

Background: A real message can nest multipart containers several levels deep — a multipart/mixed holding a multipart/alternative of text and HTML plus attachments — and GetStructure renders that hierarchy at a glance without the full content. It is the fast way to understand or debug an unfamiliar message's layout, in either a readable text outline or machine-parseable XML.

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

'  Demonstrates the Mime.GetStructure method, which returns a concise summary of the MIME tree.
'  The only argument selects the output format: "xml" for XML, or "text" (the default) for a
'  plain-text outline.

set mime = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Mime")

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

'  Get a human-readable text outline of the MIME structure.
structure = mime.GetStructure("text")
If (mime.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( mime.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( structure) & "</pre>"

%>
</body>
</html>