Well, I know for a fact that this service is called via http, but does that
make cfinvoke inherently superior to using cfhttp?

Tim P.

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 6:06 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: cfinvoke vs cfhttp


That is actually a common misconception. Web services can be implemented
using a variety of protocols whether they be lower level like TCP or
UDP, or higher level like HTTP or SMTP; they could even be binary
marshalling protocols like RMI or JMS. Further, Web services can make
use of a variety of wrappers from SOAP to XML-RPC or even WDDX and
MRNXMP (Matt's Really Neat XML Marshalling Protocol).

Matt Liotta
President & CEO
Montara Software, Inc.
http://www.montarasoftware.com/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 12:11 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: cfinvoke vs cfhttp
>
> Unless I'm crazy, web services were meant to be (or are mainly) called
> by HTTP requests - so I don't know why the use of cfhttp would be
cause
> for alarm.
>
>
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>
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tim Painter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 3:04 PM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: cfinvoke vs cfhttp
> >
> >
> > Folks,
> >     I've been helping a client get a proper response back
> > from a webservice written in vb.net and because of the way
> > the service was written, a particular method will not work
> > using cfinvoke.   It is supposed to return an xml document,
> > but for some reason CFMX cannot handle it.
> >
> > As a workaround the service will also handle a http get or
> > post, so I've used cfhttp to use the same service and get the
> > xml that way.   My client says it work temporarily, but is
> > not "stable enough" to go live.  I am not sure why...
> >
> > So my question to all of you is there any truth to this?  Why
> > would running a cfinvoke be any more stable than a cfhttp
> > call?  It seems to be that basically it is soft of doing the
> > same thing behind the scenes..  My guess is that he has a
> > sense that cfhttp is unreliable due to a lot of the problems
> > it  had back in the 4.x days.
> >
>
>
>

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