this project may be a lot more doable. However I fully expect that it won't
be done for another 2 - 3 years. Cohesive plan? heck I'd love to see some
vague logic once in a while from local government bureaucracy.
larry
At 11:00 PM 11/23/2003, you wrote:
>Larry, welcome to every day of my life from the inside. Deanna and I work
>supporting (and in some cases building) some of those county web sites that
>don't have any rhyme or reason to how they do things. Trying to do things
>with a cohesive plan here is sometimes like pulling teeth from a badger.
>
>-Kevin
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Larry C. Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 5:26 PM
>Subject: Re: taking a chance
>
> > 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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