asking if they have any sort of web services interface or RSS-type data
or other open connectivity options is like asking if they don't use
<blink> tags, but it's worth at least putting that on the table.
- Jim
Larry C. Lyons wrote:
>I started this job 6 weeks ago. The overall idea was good. the
>eventual implementation is not so good.
>
>Unfortunately when I looked at the end result, and how to get to it,
>its become quite clear that there were a few really large problems,
>some of them may be insurmountable. Its a screen scraping app that
>retrieves certain documents from different county web sites.
>Unfortunately the way the logins are done on these sites mean that
>I'm almost at the end of my rope trying to figure work arounds. A
>cfhttp with redirect="yes" doesn't work with the first county's login
>for instance, it returns an invalid login. When I manually try the
>login on the contents of the cfhttp.fileContent, it allows me to
>login no problem. And that's only one site. I can do a manual login
>and the app works just fine. It can list and email that document list
>to the user no problem. Then there's the redirect when the app tries
>to retrieve the documents itself. As I said this is an impending
>train wreck.
>
>And that's only one county. The next county they want to work on uses
>Windows work group logins. As far as I know cfhttp cannot work around
>that.
>
>Its been an exercise in frustration. At least the job market for CF
>developers in this area is still pretty good.
>
>larry
>
>
>
>>Didn't you start there like all of a month ago?
>>
>>- Matt Small
>>
>>
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