Good morning all. I have a client that has a CF based website (built by myself around 5 years ago) and a SCO Unix Open Server backend. It's a legacy system with software that's been heavily modified over the last 20-25 years. Neither system communicates with the other.
The client is looking to streamline the order fulfillment process and to "get with 21st century". They wish to add a live inventory and live credit card processing feature to their website. Though I have done this type of work in the past, I have never worked with a legacy system to complete this. And, to complicate matters, the software technicians that administer the SCO Unix Open Server DO NOT wish to use a HTTP protocol to communicate between the two servers. They tell me that they wish to communicate to my CF server via the FTP protocol. A basic interaction would go something like this. A customer would attempt to place an item in their shopping cart. Before the item is added to the cart an "inventory check" is made. A CF process would write an XML file and FTP it to the remote SCO Unix Open Server. The remote server would then respond and push a response file back to the CF server. The CF server would process the file and determine a Yes/No answer and either add the item to the cart or display a message that the item is out of stock to the customer. I was wondering, can this even be done with CF and the FTP protocol instead of using HTTP? With HTTP, this would be relatively easy with the <cfhttp> tag. With FTP, I am not sure how the communication would work. :( In my mind, even if I used the CF Event Gateway to monitor a predefined directory for FTP traffic... I cannot figure out how to parse the FTP file and send the response back to "the right" shopping cart. Does that make sense? Any help anyone could provide me would be much appreciated. Regards, Che ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:268794 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
