Interesting idea on the ping test. I'll try that. Since it is sporadic the packet sniffer might be a bit of work, but I'm heading in that direction if I can't figure it out. Thanks.
---Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: b...@bradwood.com [mailto:b...@bradwood.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 5:46 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: RE: CFHTTP wierdness > > > Hmm, it almost sounds like an intermittent network problem. > Out of curiosity what if you set up a cfexecute to capture > the results of a ping command to the remote server at the > time it failed. If it turns out to be something low-level > like that you might save some time trouble CFML that is just fine. > > Also, if the error can be reproduced fairly easily, you can > try setting up a packet sniffer (like WireShark) on your > server to capture the traffic and see what is happening. > You'd probably want to set up some pre-capture filters > though-- capture files could get big pretty quick on a server > with a lot of network traffic. > > ~Brad > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: CFHTTP wierdness > From: Jeff Langevin <jlange...@outdoors.org> > Date: Thu, January 07, 2010 2:51 pm > To: cf-talk <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> > > > So I've got a production and a live server. Both running CF8, > Win 2003 Server Standard Ed, IIS6. Both have the same code > calling a remote, non-CF-based web service via a cfhttp call > to an https URL. We are getting sporadic "Connection Failure" > messages from cfhttp. This clearly isn't the old cfhttp_5 > inability to connect to a secure site because it works > normally. However, it the dev server can still often connect > when the production server can't. Though we definitely > sometimes experience the inability to connect on both > sometimes. I've tried changing timeouts anywhere from 5 to 60 > seconds. I now loop over the attempt to connect a bunch of > times before showing an error message to the user. > > I know this is a shot in the dark, but I figured I would ask > if anyone has experienced anything like this or has any > thoughts. I'm also open to suggestions on how to try to > diagnose the problem. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:329522 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
