Interacting with Remote Servers

This chapter describes how Macromedia ColdFusion MX 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

Using cfhttp to interact with the web

Creating a query object from a text file

Using the cfhttp Post method

Performing file operations with cfftp

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