> I have set up an MSN Gateway, I can send messages to the MSN account > and receive messages from that MSN account. But I am not able to > figure out how to show the user the response, other then letting the > gateway add it to the DB, and let the app pull it from the DB. But I > don't want to do that, because it is a lot of data to put in the DB. > > Is there any other way?
You can, in theory, put the response into an application or server variable in the handler from the event gateway and have JS poll a CF page that looks for a response. Heres a sample implementation. User enters in question in form on webpage. Javascript submits question via XMLHTTP post to CF page. CF Page posts question to MSN user and prefixes a UUID (or the users CFID/CFToken/JSessionID/any unique ID) to the question. For example: WebsiteMSN_User: [987124] - Do you guys sell widgets? And returns that unique as the response of the XMLHTTP request. Javascript holds that number in memory and polls a different page (getResponse.cfm?msgID=987124) every 5-10 seconds (or uses a hanging get, whatever you prefer) passing that number as a parameter to the page. MSN user responds, prefixing the same code to his response MSNUser: [987124] - we do sell widgets, click on Cogs/Widgets on the top menu bar and you will see it You would add an application variable in your msn event gateway incoming message handler that would create a variable <cfset application.msnDialogue.987124 = "we do sell widgets, click on Cogs/Widgets on the top menu bar and you will see it"> Finally, the getResponse.cfm page would look for that variable and if it found it, return it and structDelete it so you dont have too many variables sitting in memory. Its not elegant, but it will work without a DB. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:278620 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
