have you tried 'resolveurl="true"'? ie
<cfhttp method="GET" url="http://www.lexus.com/images/home/mn_ph_sc_top.jpg"
resolveurl="true">
mike
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> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 1:06 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: retrieve remote images using cfhttp?
>
> i have been trying for the better part of the morning to figure out where
> i am going wrong with the CFHTTP tag.
> i get a list of about 200 cars two times a week and the majority have
> photos (with full url to other sites) but cant seem to figure out how to
> get CFHTTP to download an image off of a remote site and save it locally
> to my hard drive.
>
> suggestions? ideas? help???!!!
>
> here is my non-functional code so far... the header seems to return the
> right info, and the mime type is also correct, but the filecontent makes
> no sense to me whatsoever and i am unsure if i am doing this right, or if
> it is even possible with the CFHTTP tag, or if i should be using some
> other tag, or if i should be using something from the allaire developer
> exchange.
>
> <cfhttp method="GET"
> url="http://www.lexus.com/images/home/mn_ph_sc_top.jpg"></cfhttp>
> <cfoutput>
> <hr>
> #cfhttp.header#
> <hr>
> #cfhttp.filecontent#
> </cfoutput>
>
>
> thanks in advance.
> peter
>
>
>
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