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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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require 'chilkat'

success = false

#  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.

mime = Chilkat::CkMime.new()

success = mime.SetBodyFromPlainText("name=John Doe & city=New York")
if (success == false)
    print mime.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

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

encodedBody = mime.getBodyDecoded()
if (mime.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false)
    print mime.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print encodedBody + "\n";