Jesse, by george I've been screaming about cfhttp forever. :) 1) The most glaring problem is that cfhttpparam automatically urlencodes all form fields. This obviously creates all sorts of problems with xml packets. I can tell you that both UPS, and Tech-Data's xml api's have no clue what to do with a urlencoded xml packet. I am sure there are others. This used to be fine in 4.5, but was changed in 5, I'd bet because somebody reported that cfhttp didn't correctly pass form fields if a form field value included an ampersand. At most that is a relnote bug...and shouldn't have been fixed by urlencoding all form posts imho. You wouldn't believe how much time this particular bug cost me, so I am understandably bitter about it :)
2) cfhttp does not allow me to set http headers. Again, this is required for most XML transactions. Specifically text/xml is required for quite a few xml apis. Some work was done with cfhttp in MX that basically allowed it to dump xml to an ip:port and get back a reply...well that's nice, but I personally have never worked with and XML api that didn't use http, so that is no help to me. -- Jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Friday, July 26, 2002, 3:19:38 PM, you wrote: JN> Actually I would be interested to hear what the problems you have with cfhttp are. JN> (it was prolly already sent ot the list, yes, but I tend to skim threads) JN> Jesse Noller JN> [EMAIL PROTECTED] JN> Macromedia Server Development JN> Unix/Linux "special guy" >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 2:51 PM >> To: CF-Talk >> Subject: Re: It's official: CFMX is 10% faster than CF5 >> >> In two of my major apps that I've been able to test, both >> have seen about a 100% increase in page execution with a single user. >> Even with debugging on. I'm quite happy with the speed. >> My main beef with MX is the broken COM support, which means that I >> can't use MSXML, which I use all the time since cfhttp is a pos. So we >> can't upgrade any servers, and have to wait for a new server to come >> online to install MX on. >> >> -- >> Jon >> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
