Searching through the Allaire forums, we see that we're not the only ones experiencing a problem with ColdFusion 5 in respect to CFHTTP and FQDNs. Specifically, a CFHTTP request to the same domain that is making the request fails. The error message is the ubiquitous CFHTTP "Connection Failure." I've included the debugging information from CFDUMP below.
Substituting the IP address for the domain works. In addition, substituting a domain other than the one making the request but one still pointed at the same IP address works. It would seem that ColdFusion parses a CFHTTP request for its own domain differently than in any other scenario. Perhaps this is for performance reasons? Who knows but it is clear there is a problem. Has anyone come across a real fix or been able to narrow down the cause of problem? We're experiencing the problem on Windows 2000 running IIS 5 and ColdFusion Server 5 Professional Edition, though many of the people reporting the problem in the Allaire forums seem to be running Apache on Linux. Here is one of the discussions on the Allaire forums: http://forums.allaire.com/coldfusion/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=214174 &highlight_key=y&keyword1=cfhttp&keyword2=connection%20failure Thanks in advance for any insight. Benjamin S. Rogers http://www.c4.net/ v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ========== CFDUMP Output ========== FILECONTENT connection failure HEADER HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:38:49 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 111 MIMETYPE text/html RESPONSEHEADER CONTENT-LENGTH 111 CONTENT-TYPE text/html DATE Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:38:49 GMT EXPLANATION Object HTTP_VERSION HTTP/1.1 SERVER Microsoft-IIS/5.0 STATUS_CODE 404 STATUSCODE 404 Not Found ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
