I realized that CFHTTP can't open a cookied session with a site which really sucks. Can you do it with the Lewis Seller Com?
Thanks, Neil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Watts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 12:41 PM Subject: RE: Emergency: Authorize. net woes > > So what's the deal? Is macromedia going to issue a patch > > to fix the urlencoding problem? > > I have no idea. In my opinion, CFHTTP has been next to useless for quite > some time - it has many, many flaws. Oddly enough, MM solicited the opinions > of a bunch of CF developers (myself included) about what we'd like CFHTTP to > be able to do. Then, apparently, they disregarded all that stuff. Given MM's > track record with CFHTTP, I wouldn't expect anything to change very soon > with it. > > Fortunately, it doesn't matter all that much, as there are many alternatives > that you can use to accomplish the same thing. In CF MX, I've been testing > the Jakarta io JSP tag library, which seems to do most of the things I want > to be able to do with an HTTP client: > http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/ > > > It should be automatic. POST doesn't encode, GET does. > > Well, it's not that simple. First of all, you should be able to send HTTP > headers whether you're sending a GET or POST request, but CFHTTP doesn't let > you do that - you can only use the CFHTTPPARAM tag when you're POSTing. This > limitation prevents you from using CFHTTP with many cookie-enabled sites, as > they won't necessarily accept anything other than GET requests for many > pages. > > Second, headers shouldn't ever be encoded, whether you're doing a POST or a > GET. This is simply a bug. > > Finally, you should be able to POST raw data, instead of just name-value > pairs. I think that this has been addressed to some degree in CF MX, but the > other problems would still make the tag unusable for quite a few things. > Since CF MX lets you invoke SOAP services over HTTP directly with the > CFINVOKE tag and CreateObject function, this is less of an issue for me, > now, but it does prevent you from sending raw data to other interfaces, such > as XML-RPC servers. > > When I say "finally" above, I don't mean to say that there aren't any other > problems with CFHTTP, just that I'm not going to bother enumerating any > more. Not having full control over headers is kind of a deal-breaker right > there. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > phone: 202-797-5496 > fax: 202-797-5444 > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
