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666 Chapter 30: Using Server-Side ActionScript
For example, when you build an HTML form using the
Post
method, you specify the name of
the page to which form data is passed. You use the
Post
method in the
CF.http
function in a
similar way. However, with the
CF.http
function, the page that receives the Post does not display
anything. See the following example:
function postWithParams()
{
// Set up the array of Post parameters. These are just like cfhttpparam tags.
// This example passes formfield data to a specified URL.
params = new Array();
params[1] = {name:"Formfield1", type:"FormField", value:"George"};
params[2] = [name:"Formfield2", type:"FormField", value:"Brown"};
url = "http://localhost:8500/";
// Invoke CF.http with the method, url, and params
result = CF.http("post", url, params);
return result.get("Filecontent");
}
Using the CF.http Get method
You use the
Get
method to retrieve files, including text and binary files, from a specified server.
You reference properties of the object returned by the
CF.http
function to access things like file
content, header information, MIME type, and so on.
The following example uses the
CF.http
function to show a common approach to retrieving data
from the web:
// Returns content of URL defined in url variable
// This example uses positional argument style
function get()
{
url = "http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/";
//Invoke with just the url argument. Get is the default.
result = CF.http(url);
return result.get("Filecontent");
}
For more information about
CF.http
function properties, see
CF.http
in CFML Reference .