Read body of email with attachment using VBA in Outlook - vba

Question

I have some VBA that checks the subject of every message as soon as it hits my inbox, and submits certain emails' contents over http to a server for processing.
This works great for messages with no attachments, but fails if there is an attachment on the email. I am using a http GET to submit the text.
What is the effect of the presence of an attachment on the body property of the message, and how can I ignore the attachment and submit only the email body text?
The VBA (trimmed for clarity but complete and functional):
Declarations:
Option Explicit
Private WithEvents olInboxItems As Items
On startup:
Private Sub Application_Startup()
Set olInboxItems = Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Items
End Sub
On item added to inbox:
Private Sub olInboxItems_ItemAdd(ByVal Item As Object)
On Error Resume Next
Dim olMailItem As MailItem
Dim strAttachmentName As String
Dim submitResult As String
If TypeOf Item Is MailItem Then
Set olMailItem = Item
If ((InStr(olMailItem.subject, "test subject") > 0)
Dim subject As String
subject = olMailItem.subject
Dim contents As Variant
contents = olMailItem.body
Dim submitURL As String
submitURL = "http:// ... " & subject & "..." & contents & "..."
XMLHttpSynchronous submitURL
End If
End If
Set Item = Nothing
Set olMailItem = Nothing
End Sub
Http submit:
Sub XMLHttpSynchronous(ByVal URL As String)
Dim XMLHttpRequest As XMLHTTP
Set XMLHttpRequest = New MSXML2.XMLHTTP
XMLHttpRequest.Open "GET", URL, False
XMLHttpRequest.Send
End Sub
edit: I am now stripping attachments with the below code (tested and working) but the url still isn't submitting correctly.
Set myattachments = olMailItem.Attachments
While myattachments.Count > 0
myattachments.Remove 1
Wend
edit 2: I set contents=subject and the url submitted correctly, still no luck with the email's body, even after the message has been stripped of attachments

Answer 1

In order to get this working I stripped the attachments with the code in my first edit, than split the string of the body's text around the first and last character. I'm not sure why this works