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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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integer li_rc
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_Mime
string ls_EncodedBody

li_Success = 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.

loo_Mime = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Mime.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Mime")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Mime
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if

li_Success = loo_Mime.SetBodyFromPlainText("name=John Doe & city=New York")
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Mime.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Mime
    return
end if

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

ls_EncodedBody = loo_Mime.GetBodyDecoded()
if loo_Mime.LastMethodSuccess = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Mime.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Mime
    return
end if

Write-Debug ls_EncodedBody


destroy loo_Mime