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2004-03-31T10:14:09

Re: NULL CFHTTPPARAM
It's actually worse than I thought.

The target server webmaster says I should set the parameter to the equivalent of the perl statement

my $variable = undef;

anyone have any ideas how to do this ?
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2004-03-31T09:17:56

the target of my http post requires a parameter be NULL by which I believe is meant the equivalent of the url string

target?parm00=value1&parm01=

i don't see any way of coding this in CFHTTPPARAM

coding the CFHTTPPARAM value="" does not seem to generate the expected value.

any ideas?

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Jwahl — 2004-02-01T06:48:40

Suppose I have to send a certificate in the header of an XML request, I have tried this:

Is there any other whay I can do this?

Jwahl

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halL — 2003-09-24T07:26:56

The header attribute was added with ColdFusion MX 6.1.
This page documents ColdFusion MX 6.0.
For 6.1 documentation, see http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/.

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csteinola — 2003-09-23T18:11:05

If I want to pass a header like

POST /Annotation HTTP/1.1
or even
HTTP/1.1 201 Created

using HTTPPARAM type="HEADER"... what would go in the "name" attribute?

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tjordahl101 — 2002-12-17T10:49:00

Please note that there is an XML type in addition to those listed. Only a single usage of this parameter type is allowed. This will POST with a content type of "text/xml". Sample usage:

this is a test

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carehart@systemanage — 2002-11-25T11:52:00

This page fails to mention that when passing a value for the name attribute when trying to use type="cgi", the name is NOT the same as the CGI variable name as CF exposes it. For instance, if you want to pass in a "referer", you wouldn't say CFHTTPPARAM Type="cgi" Name="http_referer" Value="somevalue".

Instead, you need to drop the "http_" and just say Name="referer". And for headers/cgi variables that have multiple parts to their name, such as HTTP_Accept_Encoding, note too that the value to use isn't just "Accept_Encoding".

Instead, you have to use the formal name for the header, as speced at the w3c site among others, http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/HTRQ_Headers.html. In this case, you'd use Name="accept-encoding", which is typical for their multi-word values.

It would be nice for the CFMX docs to clarify this, as I'm sure many pull their hair out trying to get this to work, relying on their knowledg of these "CGI" variables solely from how they appear in the CF debugging info or a dump of the CGI scope.