That's why I'm confused. I've done complex screen scraping on ebay and others and it never takes more than a few seconds per request, even big ones. Maybe I write tighter regex, but the point is that it should never take hours. In addition, most places that you'd want data from have one form or another of web services which can speed everything up even more. I just gave a presentation on web services at CFUNITED and the power of 7 (and 6.1) allows access to just about everything that web services have (6.0 didn't allow custom soap headers). I'd like to hear a lot more about the app and issues as this sounds like something that should not be any sort of 'weight' on a machine. And yes, async processing is the bomb!!! I gave a presentation on using it for user logging and it is so sweet that Macromedia should allow it for every version of CF, not just enterprise.
>> I've worked on some big systems in the past and on some >> lousy hardware and I >> can say that: >> 1. CF can handle 2 hour templates >> 2. CF should never have to handle 2 hour templates >> 3. With some tighter coding and caching, just about >> anything can be sped up. > > Well it sounded to me like he was describing "screen-scraping" their > web-pages, which is why I recommended the Asynch CFML gateway... > although any given piece of software can always be optimized for > performance, I'd expect the gains from optimizing a "screen-scrape" > routine wouldn't be much in comparison to the total time for the > process. > > s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 > new epoch : isn't it time for a change? > > add features without fixtures with > the onTap open source framework > > http://www.fusiontap.com > http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:162808 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
