larry
>From my experience with regional government websites, I know that
>asking if they have any sort of web services interface or RSS-type data
>or other open connectivity options is like asking if they don't use
><blink> tags, but it's worth at least putting that on the table.
>
>- Jim
>
>Larry C. Lyons wrote:
>
>>I started this job 6 weeks ago. The overall idea was good. the
>>eventual implementation is not so good.
>>
>>Unfortunately when I looked at the end result, and how to get to it,
>>its become quite clear that there were a few really large problems,
>>some of them may be insurmountable. Its a screen scraping app that
>>retrieves certain documents from different county web sites.
>>Unfortunately the way the logins are done on these sites mean that
>>I'm almost at the end of my rope trying to figure work arounds. A
>>cfhttp with redirect="yes" doesn't work with the first county's login
>>for instance, it returns an invalid login. When I manually try the
>>login on the contents of the cfhttp.fileContent, it allows me to
>>login no problem. And that's only one site. I can do a manual login
>>and the app works just fine. It can list and email that document list
>>to the user no problem. Then there's the redirect when the app tries
>>to retrieve the documents itself. As I said this is an impending
>>train wreck.
>>
>>And that's only one county. The next county they want to work on uses
>>Windows work group logins. As far as I know cfhttp cannot work around
>>that.
>>
>>Its been an exercise in frustration. At least the job market for CF
>>developers in this area is still pretty good.
>>
>>larry
>>
>>
>>
>>>Didn't you start there like all of a month ago?
>>>
>>>- Matt Small
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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