Che, While it could be done, using FTP is going to be extremely sluggish--unless you can manage to keep the FTP session open all day.
If you have to log in for each request, you're going to end up adding a good second or two to the entire process just for the FTP authentication operations. That's going to seem like forever to a customer on their website. If the client insists on FTP, I'd probably look into writing/finding an application that would monitor a specific folder and push any new files to the FTP server--something that would run as a service and would maintain the FTP session. That way you'd simply write a file to one folder, it would be pushed to the SCO server and then when it's done it would push a result back to another folder on your server. It still might be too sluggish, but it would seem like the best method for managing this problem. -Dan >-----Original Message----- >From: Che Vilnonis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 8:32 AM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: CF and Legacy Systems... Need Some Advice/Help > >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:268800 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
