Visual FoxPro

URL-Encode a MIME Body

Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.UrlEncodeBody method, which replaces the current body with an application/x-www-form-urlencoded-style representation using the named charset. The only argument is the charset; it is a void method.

Background: This transforms the body into the form-encoding used by HTML form submissions — spaces to +, reserved characters to percent-escapes — interpreting the text through the given charset first so non-ASCII characters encode correctly. It is a niche operation for constructing form-style payloads within a MIME part.

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loMime
LOCAL lcEncodedBody

lnSuccess = 0

*  Demonstrates the Mime.UrlEncodeBody method, which replaces the current body with an
*  application/x-www-form-urlencoded representation using the named charset.  The only argument is
*  the charset.  It is a void method.

loMime = CreateObject('Chilkat.Mime')

lnSuccess = loMime.SetBodyFromPlainText("name=John Doe & city=New York")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loMime.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loMime
    CANCEL
ENDIF

*  URL-encode the body: spaces become "+", reserved characters become %-escapes.
loMime.UrlEncodeBody("utf-8")

lcEncodedBody = loMime.GetBodyDecoded()
IF (loMime.LastMethodSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loMime.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loMime
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? lcEncodedBody

RELEASE loMime