HTTP Question!

[ColdFusionKing]

Hello everybody,

I'm trying to call a .asp file from my coldfusion page
using cfhttp and I keep getting errors. Both files are
on the same server, just different folders under the
site webroot.
This should explain it:

The ColdFusion file is in
C:\Inetpub\

http://wwwroot\myProject\pages\folder1\searchreport.cfm

and the ASP file is in
C:\Inetpub\

http://wwwroot\myProject\site\includes\topmenu\folder2\menu.asp.

Can somebody show me how to use cfhttp to call the asp
file (menu.asp) in my coldfusion file
(searchreport.cfm)

Many Thanks
Allan

 

[ecobb]

What kind of errors are you gettin? To use cfhttp you have to use http protocol, so I don't think using the file path (C:\Inetpub\

http://wwwroot\....)

is going to work. Try it use

http://www.whatever....

or

http://servername/whateverfolder.....

Hope This Helps!

Ecobb
- I hate computers!

 

[ColdFusionKing]

But which attribute should I use, file, path or URL?

 

[ecobb]

URL is the url of the file/page you want to bring in.
Path is used to save the http request to a file in a directory (specified in the PATH attribute), and file is used to name the saved file.

Check this out:

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/tags-p58.htm#wp1632966

It gives you a detailed overview of all the attributes and what each one does.

Hope This Helps!

Ecobb
- I hate computers!

 

[csteinhilber]

I would imagine it'll be something like:

<CFHTTP url=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://yourdomain.com/myProject/site/includes/topmenu/folder2/menu.asp&quot;[/URL] method=&quot;GET&quot; ...>

<CFOUTPUT>#CFHTTP.FileContents#</CFOUTPUT>

As an aside... have you tried just using CFINCLUDE? If you have your server set up to process ASP, when you do a CFINCLUDE of an ASP page, the ASP should get processed before it's given back to the CFM page.

If that would work for you, I think you'll be much happier with the performance over using CFHTTP. But I'm not sure what you're actually trying to do with the ASP, so it may not be appropriate in your situation.



-Carl

 

[ColdFusionKing]

yes, I have tried using CFInclude but get an error. I dumped the http response returned by the cfhttp tag


Output the Response Headers:

Date : Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:20:34 GMT
Server : Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Content-Length : 4431
Content-Type : text/html
Explanation : Access Denied
Connection : close
Status_Code : 401

http://WWW-Authenticate

: NTLM
Http_Version : HTTP/1.1

Now somebody in other forum (

http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm/method=messages&threadid=28021&forumid=4#141318)

mentioned that I need to use HTTP authentication (mechanism described in RFC 2617) using the propietary NTLM system from Microsoft. I can't understand a word as to what that's supposed to mean.

So what I did was save the asp include file as a coldfusion file and invoked it using the cfinclude tag. The include file has html in it and a asp "if" condition which checks if the value of a session variable is "true"

<%
if session(&quot;user.supportuser&quot = &quot;TRUE&quot; then
%>


Do Something

<%
end if
%>

I am trying to re-write this in coldfusion but I don't know how to do it. Can ColdFusion read an asp session variable? I have tried to dump the session scope but get an error. I don't have a application.cfm file. If I can get this working then my problem is solved.

 

[csteinhilber]

If you don't have an Application.cfm, can I assume that you don't have a CFAPPLICATION tag? If you don't have a CFAPPLICATION tag, you can't use the session scope. But I'm not even sure that the ASP session scope can be shared as the ColdFusion session scope.

The quickest solution would probably be to store the user.supportuser as a cookie... then both ColdFusion and ASP should be able to read/write it.



-Carl