Classic ASP

Set a MIME Body from a File

Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.SetBodyFromFile method, which reads a local file and sets it as the body, choosing content headers from the filename extension. The only argument is the file path.

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: This is the one-call way to turn a file into a MIME part: Chilkat reads the bytes and infers the Content-Type and transfer encoding from the extension — .jpg becomes image/jpeg with base64, .txt a text type, and so on. It is the natural building block for adding an attachment, usually followed by setting a Content-Disposition and filename.

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

'  Demonstrates the Mime.SetBodyFromFile method, which reads a local file and sets it as the body,
'  choosing content headers based on the filename extension.  The only argument is the file path.

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

'  The Content-Type and encoding are set from the ".jpg" extension (image/jpeg, base64).
success = mime.SetBodyFromFile("qa_data/photo.jpg")
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( mime.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Content-Type: " & mime.ContentType) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Encoding: " & mime.Encoding) & "</pre>"

%>
</body>
</html>