Here's a UDF I adapted from an amalgamation of Jon's code and Ben
Forta's HTTPGet UDF for Posting of UPS XML Posts - just append together
the XML request packet and the tracking or service selection packet
using cfsavecontent to build the materials. Unless of course there's
some sort of toString() method for converting XML structures to string
for later appending, dunno - I just got lazy and used the savecontent
tag. Oh, and it needs JRE 1.4 (SSL improvements) or I suppose you can
load JSSE into the UDF, but once again - lazy.
function RawPost(urlString,messageString) {
// Variables
var oURL = "";
var oPage = "";
var oInputStream = "";
var oOutputStream = "";
var oConnection = "";
var oReader = "";
var oWriter = "";
var oBuffer = "";
var sLine = "";
var sOutput = "";
// Init class
oURL = CreateObject("java", "java.net.URL");
oWriter = CreateObject("java", "java.io.OutputStreamWriter");
oReader = CreateObject("java", "java.io.InputStreamReader");
oBuffer = CreateObject("java", "java.io.BufferedReader");
// Create URL Instance
oInstance = oURL.init(urlString);
// Open URL Connection
oConnection = oInstance.openConnection();
oConnection.setDoInput(true);
oConnection.setDoOutput(true);
oConnection.setUseCaches(false);
oConnection.setAllowUserInteraction("false");
oConnection.setFollowRedirects("false");
oConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");
nContentLength = JavaCast("string",Len(messageString));
oConnection.setRequestProperty("HOST",CGI.REMOTE_HOST & ":80");
oConnection.setRequestProperty("CONTENT-LENGTH",nContentLength);
oConnection.setRequestProperty("ACCEPT","*/*");
oConnection.setRequestProperty("USER_AGENT",CGI.HTTP_REFERER);
oOutputStream = oConnection.getOutputStream();
oWriter.init(oOutputStream);
oWriter.write(messageString);
oWriter.flush();
oWriter.close();
// Get stream
oInputStream = oConnection.getInputStream();
oReader.init(oInputStream);
oBufferStream = oBuffer.init(oReader);
sLine = oBuffer.readLine();
while (IsDefined("sLine")) {
sOutput = sOutput & sLine;
sLine = oBuffer.readLine();
}
// Close stream (Close method doesn't seem to work too well here?)
// Don't know if setting to nothing closes it or not, figure that out
later...
oInputStream = "";
oConnection.disconnect();
// Parse Response
sOutput = XMLParse(sOutput);
return sOutput;
}
Erik Yowell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.shortfusemedia.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 3:07 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: MX and UPS XML
I should write up a CF/UPS XML FAQ or something, seeing as how often
this question comes up.
CFHTTP can not be used to POST XML because CFHTTP encodes all
POSTS, unless the receiver specifically takes steps to decode the XML.
These companies are in the minority in my experience though. UPS
expects non-encoded XML. That's why it doesn't work. The type=xml does
not construct the HTTP commands. It just opens a socket and sends xml.
cfx_rawsocket probably works with the 1.4 JRE, because the 1.4 JRE
integrates SSL (JSSE), which the 1.3 JRE does not. CFHTTP with a
default CF install will not work with SSL either. UPS requires SSL.
I posted some MX/Java code to do http posts, and the source for a
java cfx tag was posted within the last few weeks. A raw socket tag
will work as well, but you will need to construct the http posts
yourself...not difficult, just another step. If you are using MX
enterprise, you can use the Jakarta JSP Taglibs also, which are pretty
neat imo.
--
jon
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tuesday, November 19, 2002, 4:14:48 PM, you wrote:
C> We actually got MX to talk to UPS for tracking. We had to use
C> CFX_RawSocket http://www.iexp.com/
C> Of course according to all of CFX_RawSocket's documentation it should
C> not work under MX. We upgraded the JRE to 1.4 and it appears to work
C> for UPS tracking numbers.
C> I have no idea what we will run into by upgrading to 1.4, but we will
C> keep playing with it and see if there are any downsides.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 2:52 PM
>> To: CF-Talk
>> Subject: RE: MX and UPS XML
>>
>> I hate to beat this into the ground, but why won't this type of XML
>> passing work with UPS? We started looking at the Java example they
>> sent. It works, but it sure is complicated!
>>
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