Hi Martin, If the remote server doesn't return a MIME content type that CF recognizes as text, then CF won't let you reference the FileContent variable. Your only recourse in that situation is to save it to the file system, then open it with CFFILE. According to the 4.5.1 SP 1 release notes, this "feature" has been fixed in SP 1. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
This from Dave some time ago if it helps. Gordon At 18:36 28/08/2002 Martin Gill said.... >Hi all, > >I am having problems with posting XML to a server using the CFHTTP >tag. The XML is stored in a seperate file which is read into the >code and then posted to the server using CFHTTP. When I run the >code, I get an error from the program at the other end. It >basically says that it is getting invalid XML and gives line 0, >position 0 as a reference. The first line of the xml is the xml >header, but when I remove that and sent the schema without it, I >get the exactly the same error. This leads me to think that the >program is being called, but not getting the data which I am sending. > >This points me towards the CFHTTPPARAM command as a possible >source of the error. > >In particular, I am wondering if the name attribute should be set >to anything specific. My understanding is that the CFHTTP post is >similar to a form post and the name is the equivolent to the name >of the field which the XML server is to search for data in. I'm >assuming that this is probably not the case otherwise the Datacash >docs would have mentioned it. But just in case, I set the name to >the name of the root schema. > > > ><CFSETTING ENABLECFOUTPUTONLY="No"> > <CFSET DataCashTestServerPort = "443"> > <CFSET DataCashTestServerURL = > "https://testserver.datacash.com/Transaction";> > > <CFSET XMLtemplateFile = > GetDirectoryFromPath(GetTemplatePath()) & "xml.dat"> > > <CFSET XMLDataString = ""> > <CFFILE ACTION="READ" FILE="#XMLtemplateFile#" > VARIABLE="XMLDataString"> > > <CFHTTP URL="https://testserver.datacash.com/Transaction"; > METHOD="POST" PORT="#DataCashTestServerPort#" RESOLVEURL="true"> > <CFHTTPPARAM TYPE="text/xml" NAME="Request" > VALUE="#Trim(XMLDataString)#"> > </CFHTTP> > > <CFOUTPUT>#cfhttp.filecontent#</CFOUTPUT> ><CFSETTING ENABLECFOUTPUTONLY="No"> > > >The XML file is as follows.This was copied from Datacashs own >example (authentication details changed to protect the innoce...guilty)... > ><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> ><Request> > <Authentication> > <password>??????</password> > <client>?????????<client> > </Authentication> > > <Transaction> > <TxnDetails> > <merchantreference>1222256</merchantreference> > <amount currency='USD'>313.37</amount> > </TxnDetails> > > <CardTxn> > <method>pre</method> > <Card> > <pan>4242424242424242</pan> > <expirydate>03/05</expirydate> > </Card> > </CardTxn> > </Transaction> ></Request> > > > >And the response that I get returned from their test server is.... > ><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> >- <Response> ><reason>Invalid XML</reason> ><status>60</status> ><information>Parse XML failed - syntax error at line 1, column 0, >byte 0</information> ></Response> > > > >Thanks in advance > > > >Martin L. Gill, MSc - Head Programmer > >For & on Behalf of UniTech >(The Universal Information Technology Group Ltd) >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >URL: http://www.unitech.net >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >UniTech House, 25 Bernard Street, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 6SH >Tel: +(44) 0131 472 5555 >DDI: +(44) 0131 472 5560 >Fax: +(44) 0131 472 5556 > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
