Headers Class

Class that represents the collection of header fields in a message or body part.

For a list of all members of this type, see Headers Members.

System.Object
   Node
      Headers

Remarks

Headers represents the collection of header fields (often called just headers) in an entity (either a message or body part), as described in RFC 2822 and RFC 2045. A Headers object manages a list of Field objects, which represent the individual header fields.

In the document tree representation of a message, a Headers object is an intermediate node, having both a parent node and several child nodes. The parent node is the Entity object that contains it. The child nodes are the Field objects in the list it manages. (See the overview section in the reference page for Node for a discussion of the tree representation of a message.)

Normally, you do not create a Headers object directly, but you access it through the Headers property of Entity, which creates the Headers object for you.

Headers has public methods for adding, removing, or accessing the Field objects it contains.

Headers also has many convenience methods and properties you may use to directly access the field bodies of standard header fields. For example, to access the Content-Type header field, retrieve the ContentType property. If the Content-Type header field does not exist, the ContentType property creates it. To check if a particular header field exists without creating it, call the HasField() method with the header field name as an argument. For example, to check if the Content-Type header field exists, call the method HasField("Content-Type"). To directly access the field body of any header field, call FieldBody(). For example, to access the field body of the X-Foo header field, call FieldBody("X-Foo").

Requirements

Namespace: Hunny.Mime

Assembly: Hunny.Mime (in Hunny.Mime.dll)

See Also

Headers Members | Hunny.Mime Namespace