> Hi everyone!  I'm looking at the CFHTTP documentation trying
> to divine the answer to the following question:  Is it
> possible to use CFHTTP to push a datafile to another
> website?  My app currently stores the user documents (word,
> excel, etc) on the local server, but we're looking at using
> a document management system, and one of the possible
> methods of interfacing might be CFHTTP.  Getting the
> metadata about the document to the other website is easy -
> but what about the file itself?  I don't see anything in the
> CFHTTP docs about this.

You should be able to use CFHTTP with METHOD="POST", and CFHTTPPARAM with
TYPE="FILE", to upload a file to a remote server just like you'd use a file
upload form in a browser. Of course, the remote server would have to have a
CGI script that would accept the file upload.

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
voice: (202) 797-5496
fax: (202) 797-5444

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