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Check if a MIME Entity is multipart/alternative

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.IsMultipartAlternative method, which returns whether the Content-Type is exactly multipart/alternative. It takes no arguments.

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: Recognizing multipart/alternative matters because its children are the same content in different formats — you display one (usually the last renderable), not all of them. That is the opposite of multipart/mixed, where every child is shown.

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

'  Demonstrates the Mime.IsMultipartAlternative method, which returns whether the Content-Type is multipart/alternative.  It takes no arguments.

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

If (mime.IsMultipartAlternative()) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "This is a multipart/alternative entity.") & "</pre>"
Else
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "This is not multipart/alternative.") & "</pre>"
End If


%>
</body>
</html>