Pardon my off topic reply, but I think I might have nightmares about this scenario when I go to bed tonight!!!
On 2/6/07, Che Vilnonis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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:268814 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
