Thanks. I'd never done that before. I might have looked at the
documentation before posting. :)
"HTTP GET -- A user can specify a URL that points to a text or binary
file. The file will be downloaded and its contents stored in a CF variable
or in a file so that the user can manipulate the data."
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, March 26, 2000 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: cfhttp for .cfm
>
>>Just out of curiosity... how could you pull arbitrary non-html files
>>(.jpg, .gif, .pdf, etc.) from a remote http server and save those files
>>locally? I know there are umpteen crawlers and offline browsers that
can
>>do exactly that, but is there a way to do it from CF?
>
>That was "easy" compared to fighting the java sandbox!! vbg
>
>We did CFHTTP with GET to move the .gif to the CF server. The CFHTTP
GET's
>lthe file from the URL and the PATH param of CFHTTP says where to write
on
>the local CF disk.
>
>Len
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