> Still stumped on this. I tried using the 'FileExists()'
> method, but it didn't detect the RealAudio stream. Then I
> got onto the server console to verify that the .rm file
> was actually there -- and it wasn't! but we were indeed
> putting out a RealAudio stream. How is it possible for
> a RealAudio stream to be playing, and yet that .rm file
> doesn't exist anywhere on the file system of the server?
If you're streaming audio or video content, it's possible that the content
doesn't exist prior to its streaming - for example, you can stream live
content, which may be recorded at one moment and streamed at the next. In
all likelihood, there's no file there at all. Instead, the RealAudio server
is simply listening for requests to a specific TCP/IP socket, and responding
to those requests by returning streamed audio content.
So, the only way you could externally confirm the existence of the stream is
to connect to the socket yourself. It probably wouldn't be a very good idea
to do this from CF, but if you wanted to, you could probably use
CFX_TCPCLIENT (http://www.intrafoundation.com/) to do this.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
voice: (202) 797-5496
fax: (202) 797-5444
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