CFX_Socket was a custom tag to allow direct socket calls. If its not in the
tag gallery then I'll send you a copy when I get home. I have the entire
gallery local including old stuff. :)
Eventually I'm going to put out that organized CD of tags. Time, money and
a backer.
At 11:49 AM 8/17/01, you wrote:
>Um I did some research all over and couldn't find CFX_Socket...
>Devex doesn't have it, Google is a no go, and in a last attempt
>CFXSocket.com is not taken....
>
>All I could turn up was cfsocket for Mac OS X for Core Foundation...
>
>What in the Hello......
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Todd Ashworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 11:46 AM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: Re: ASP vs. Cold Fusion
>
>
>You can also telnet into the machine and see if the mailserver is running.
>Often times you get something like this:
>
>+OK POP3 dssf.tudelft.nl v2000.70 server ready
>
>I tried using <cfexecute>, but it wouldn't actually 'return' anything that
>could be displayed. Maybe someone else could figure out a way to do this.
>
>Todd
>
>| I really have no clue as to how this works internally. The test is if your
>| mail server shows up in the administrator then the function will work for
>| it. Basically, this is the function used in the admin to do that check.
>| My thought is that it does a tcp/ip request to the port specified. If so,
>| then maybe it can also be used to specify if a server or service is
>running
>| or not. Use it to check if an FTP server is running on a machine.
>|
>| At 08:26 AM 8/17/01, you wrote:
>| >Michael Dinowitz wrote:
>| > > Checking that the domain exists is easy using the
>| > > CFUSION_VERIFYMAIL(MailServer, SMTPPort, Timeout) function. It'll
>return a
>| > > Boolean true or false id the mail server exists or not.
>| >
>| >How does this work internally? Does it do a DNS lookup and search for a
>| >failover server if it can't contact the main server? Many mail domains I
>| >know (e.g. most academic domains in the Netherlands) have a setup where
>| >they block all incoming traffic on port 25 and provide a failover server
>| >that acts as a smarthost for mail to be delivered to the network
>| >(130.161.0.0/16 and 145.94.0.0/16 need to go through one server at my
>| >Uni). This allows them to provide central spam blocking and antivirus
>| >scanning, while the users can still connect to local servers. I would
>| >however expect that you can not verify my email server, while it is a
>| >valid and running server (try it).
>| >Also, many servers don't accept SMTP connections from computers outside
>| >a trusted domain that don't have an MX record. If your CF server does
>| >not have an MX record but your SMTP server does, you might get a false
>| >negative.
>| >
>| >Jochem
>
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