if you have direct access tot he server with the file then you would use
CFFILE to copy it.
If the file is only accessible over the web, then you can use CFHTTP to
grab the file content and save to your local server. You will of course not
get the raw file, only what is displayed in a browser.
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:50 AM, safo 2000 <safokas...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> i am a bit confused, this is the first time I do this kind of request so
> bear with me.
>
> I am trying to do the following:
>
> i created a cf app on the source server (w2k3)
>
> <cfquery name="Param" datasource="lib_datasql" >
> SELECT proxloc from MainServer
> </cfquery>
> <cfset
> fname="#param.proxloc#\@conv_#dateformat(dateadd("d",-1,now()),'dd-mm-yyyy')#.txt">
>
> <cfif FileExists("#fname#") >
>
> (the above will check for the file and find it)
>
> then i need to copy the file to the cf server and work with it,
> that's were you lost me.
> <cfelse>
> not found
> </cfif>
>
>
> > >ok, so then how would I do the copy from w2k3 to cf9 server
> >
> > You would use CFHTTP to grab the content from the other server, and
> > then save it as a file on your CF9 server.
> >
> > Personally I would do a separate CF app, scheduled in the CF
> > administrator, that would periodically look for the file on the other
> > server, and if it is there, grab it and download it.
> >
> > Then when your aggregation app runs, it just has to worry about
> > content on your server.
> >
> > YMMV of course - I'm looking at it from the perspective of an
> > application I worked on where the other server wasn't that reliable,
> > and separating the "grab files from the other server" and "process
> > files" helped troubleshooting tremendously.
>
>
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