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.
For more information about CF.http
function properties, see Chapter 5, "ColdFusion ActionScript Functions".
The following example of using the CF.http
function shows 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"); }