Chapter 36: Interacting With Remote Servers - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION MX 61-DEVELOPING COLDFUSION MX Develop Manual

CHAPTER 36
Interacting with Remote Servers
This chapter describes how ColdFusion wraps the complexity of Hypertext Transfer Protocol
(HTTP) and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) communications in a simplified tag syntax that lets you
extend your site's offerings across the web.
Contents
About interacting with remote servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808
Using cfhttp to interact with the web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808
Creating a query object from a text file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811
Using the cfhttp Post method. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812
Performing file operations with cfftp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815
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