just tested it on Railo (don't have ACF at hand) and it worked fine. you should specify a filename in your destination attribute, though...
just to test, do a <cfimage action="info" ...> and cfdump the variable. Azadi On 24/01/2011 22:41 , Stefan Richter wrote: > Just to follow up on this: > adding something like&ext=.gif did *not* work. Sorry Ray ;-) > > If I try this: > > <cfset THISFOLDER = "#Expandpath('./')#"> > > > <cfimage > action = "write" > destination = "#thisFolder#" > source = > "http://www4b.wolframalpha.com/Calculate/MSP/MSP602219e3e3996gh5hbc100005fea4b2e9h4g4ccc?MSPStoreType=image/gif&s=16&ext=.gif" > > > > then CF still complains: > > The /calculate/msp/msp602219e3e3996gh5hbc100005fea4b2e9h4g4ccc image format > is not supported on this operating system. > > > CF seems to ignore anything after the ? > > As mentioned before I managed to work around this by fetching the image over > cfhttp but cfimage would have been a lot more convenient. > > Cheers > > Stefan > > > > > > On 17 Jan 2011, at 15:20, Raymond Camden wrote: > >> Yeah I seem to remember that trick working in the past. You have to >> assume your remote service doesn't care about a url param called ext. >> >> To be safe, I'd use: >> >> &rayrules=.gif >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Stefan Richter<ste...@flashcomguru.com> >> wrote: >>> Ah I see. Guess I could try this by appending&ext=.gif to the URL then... >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> >>> On 17 Jan 2011, at 14:41, Raymond Camden wrote: >>> >>>> I think - stress think - CF handles the result based on the file name >>>> in the URL. So if CF had seen foo.gif at the end, it would have >>>> assumed a gif. In your case there is no obvious extension so maybe CF >>>> didn't know what to assume. > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:341125 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm