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Using cfhttp to interact with the web

The cfhttp tag, which lets you retrieve information from a remote server, is one of the more powerful tags in the CFML tag set. You can use one of two methods--Get or Post--to interact with a remote server using the cfhttp tag:

Using the Get method, you can only send information to the remote server in the URL. This method is often used for a one-way transaction in which cfhttp retrieves an object.
Using the Post method, you can pass variables to a ColdFusion page or CGI program, which processes them and returns data to the calling page. The calling page then appears or further processes the data that was received. For example, when you use cfhttp to Post to another ColdFusion page, that page does not appear. It processes the request and returns the results to the original ColdFusion page, which then uses the information as appropriate.


Contents > Developing ColdFusion MX Applications > Interacting with Remote Servers > Using cfhttp to interact with the web

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jladams97 said on Jan 17, 2005 at 8:53 PM :

If you're having a problem getting an unexpected "Connection Failure" response when using cfhttp, check out this URL:

http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=day&day=28&month=07&year=2004

Macromedia--you guys really need to get this up in a TechNote on your site. If it is there, my apologies, but I did look and didn't see anything.

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