-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There are two ways I can think of -- an easy / not quite reliable way, or a really hard, but fairly solid way... Method 1: (Fairly easy, not so stable) You mention that you want ASP for increased stability (a perfectly valid desire in my experience...), but this method relies on CF for the parts that need CFX access. If that's an acceptable trade off, then this should work. Just use one of the various HTTP COM objects to request a CFM page from your server that has the CFX in it. You'll need to setup querystring or form parameters on the page to pass any information in, and you'll need to display any results on the page in a format that's parseable by your ASP page. You might use WDDX for the parameter passing, as I believe there's a WDDX COM object available. This method is of course only as good as your HTTP and/or WDDX COM objects and your CF Server. Method 2: (This one would be a b*tch to implement, but (if done correctly) should be as stable as the CFXs you're calling.) You should (conceivablely) be able to reimplement the CFX runtime environment in a COM object. Then you could pass all of the parameters & the path to the CFX's DLL into the COM object & get results back. You'd have a *LOT* of work to do to implement the CFX environment for COM, but if you did it correctly & thoroughly, I think you'd have a saleable product.... Other potential variations: * Learn to call the CFML.dll ISAPI filter directly without needing to make an HTTP request. (I haven't a clue where you'd start to accomplish this, but it's reasonably doable...) * Learn to call the ColdFusion service directly. This is basically the same as above, but it bypasses the CFML.dll layer completely. Chances are the sources for the Apache CF module might be a good starting place to figure out how to talk to CFAS. <CF_Disclaimer> Of course doing anything but method one above would run a decent risk of killing CFAS, your webserver, or possibly (when you Boss finds out) yourself... Implement at your own risk... </CF_Disclaimer> In short, I'd say Method One is a quick fix, Method Two is optimal. Hope that gives you a starting point to work from... Best regards, Zac Bedell > -----Original Message----- > From: Geoffrey V. Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 4:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: CFX in ASP > > > > Hey, > I was wondering if anyone knew of anyway to pull data from a > CFX using ASP? > I'm thinking it could be done in a round-about way, as Cold > Fusion is on the > same box as the ASP server, but for the sake of stability we > need to run > some scripts in ASP. > > Ideas? > > Thanks, > Geoffrey Vail Brown > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------- > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To Unsubscribe visit > http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=list > s/cf_talk or send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBObVjbAraVoMWBwRBEQJIRACdGGWcJn/i7nV3rP499Lqic7IFGJMAoMyM mtv40xyR2w38fuUcLlR/IQtZ =PJJe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
