This fixes the problem: http://www.cftagstore.com/tags/cfxhttp5.cfm
>Thanks for looking at it Dave, it has me completely stumped, I always seem >to find the cruelest limitations of a technology where there's no way >out. I think the CFHTTP timeout is probably working as intended, so that >if no reply at all is received then the timeout applies. The problem is >that there's no way to tell CFHTTP when to stop after it does start >receiving data AND there wasn't an error in the HTTP header. > >It's pretty interesting to put the code snip on a server and watch CPU >utilization in the Task Manager when it's run. CPU utilization starts >rising pretty rapidly, it takes ten or fifteen seconds to get all the way >to 100% and then it's just pegged there forever, which means I can't ever >let my link checker run unattended, and nobody else who ever builds a link >checker with ColdFusion can either. Sometimes CPU utilization rises and >falls a few times, creating an upward sawtooth pattern before it reaches >100%. > >I've tried putting the CFHTTP in a CFLOOP inside a custom tag to use CFEXIT >logic on it, trying to break out of the loop execution after a few seconds >time, but that didn't work either. > >I could theoretically accomplish the goal by using CFEXECUTE to run >Ping.exe, but then I'd have to parse the output to get the ping time and >deal with every possible error message, ack. > >What do you think the chances are that MM would patch version 5.0 CFHTTP >for me with a 'global timeout' to force CFHTTP to stop after X seconds, >LOL? Other than that I'm at a loss for a fix to this problem unless >somebody else has some brilliant ideas. > >Do you know how to report a bug to Macromedia? Their website discusses >various levels of paid support, but I am not about to pay them for the >privilege of informing them of a bug in their code. > >Regards, > >Karl S. > > >At 06:59 AM 8/12/05, Dave wrote: > > >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.8/71 - Release Date: 8/12/05 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:214842 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
