Dick, that is very interesting, so it looks like the USER_AGENT=Cold Fusion
4.0 overrides whatever you send along w/cfhttp as a cgi value.
That may be behind my difficulties...hmm, I could ask them to modify their
code, not sure if they will make such a change for lowly me, but it's worth
a shot.
Andrea
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From: "Lawrence B. Afrin, M.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HTTP request and CGI variables
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 08:55:18 -0400
I had some difficulties with this problem recently, too, when I needed to
implement a monitor that checks on another site. Some things to be aware
of:
1) The USERAGENT param to CFHTTP did not become available until CF4.5. I
don't believe trying to set the user agent via CFHTTPPARAM in earlier
version of CF will accomplish the desired effect. If you're not at 4.5,
upgrade, then use CFHTTP USERAGENT=...
2) Note that there is a problem in the cfhttp.dll with 4.5 that causes
buggy CFHTTP METHOD=POST operations (such that the receiving server will
misunderstand/reject the request). A hotfix (basically, an updated
cfhttp.dll) is available at
http://www.allaire.com/handlers/index.cfm?ID=14140&Method=Full, or you can
upgrade to 4.5.1, which includes this and all other 4.5 hotfixes, I believe.
-- LBA
--On Sunday, April 23, 2000, 1:26 AM -0700 Dick Applebaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Andrea
>
>
> I never had the need to examine this before, so I wrote a little
> program to check it out.
>
> CF passes a HTTP_USER_AGENT of:
>
> ColdFusion 4.0
>
> I can understand arguments for and against allowing you to spoof the
> user agent.
>
> (Tango does).
>
> I couldn't find anything in any CFDocs that says you can't.... but
> that probably means... you can't.
>
>
> In your case, maybe you can convince the ASP programmer to accept
> ColdFusion 4.0 as a valid browser???
>
>
> HTH
>
> Dick
>
>
>
> At 7:23 PM +0000 4/21/2000, Andrea W wrote:
>> I am sending an http request using cfhttp to register a user on a remote
>> site - the remote site is using asp. The asp code is looking for the
>> browser type in the cgi variables. I am sending it the browser type as
>> follows:
>>
>> <cfhttp
>> url="http://remote.server.com/signup/signup.asp?username=andrea&passw
>> ord=sesame"
>> method="post" resolveurl="true">
>>
>> <CFHTTPPARAM TYPE="CGI" NAME="HTTP_USER_AGENT" VALUE="Mozilla/4.0
>> (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT)">
>>
>> </cfhttp>
>>
>> But the remote app is still balking and claiming that I have an old
>> browser version. Does anyone know if there is some way that using the
>> cfhttp tag can tack on some cgi variables that cannot be overridden by
>> the cfhttpparam? I have shown this code to the asp developer who wrote
>> the code that accepts the user registration, and he said the
>> HTTP_USER_AGENT variable looked correct and is what his app is looking
>> for.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andrea Wasik
>>
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