Well in looking at the ASP code side of things there are some session variables that I need to make available, not just URL stuff.
> Maybe this is way oversimplifying it, but can't you just do a form post? > What kind of variables are you passing? If it could go into a URL > string, > what i've done in the past is to just cfhttp to the asp page, and > include > the output as a variable. Something like so: > > <cfhttp url="myAspPage.asp?foo=bar&something=somethingElse"> > > Then on the ASP page, I just write some plain text (wddx, xml, or just > foo = > bar, something = somethingElse) and use that however I need to on my cfm > page. > -----Original Message----- > From: Shane Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 2:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Question on Accessing Session Objects... > > > Ah so if I'm on the same page as you then all I would need to do is > stick a > little bit of asp code in the asp pages to detect and deserialize the > wddx > and then maybe re-scope the variables into what ever the asp page was > needing? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hayes, Joseph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 11:00 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Question on Accessing Session Objects... > > Shane, > > I think I might have a solution for both of us... thanks to John Beynon > and a friend of his, I am on track now to solve the problem. If you > have > access to the Advanced Application Development book by Ben Forta, take a > look at the section on WDDX. In a nutshell, ASP can create WDDX > packets, > and so can CF, so now all that needs to happen is to create the gate > keeper > between the two to pass things back and forth. The book takes a couple > chapters to get through all of it, but it does look like the answer. As > soon as I have it worked out for sure, I will contact you and show you > what > I did. > > Joe > -----Original Message----- > From: Shane Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 1:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Question on Accessing Session Objects... > I actually am faced with a need to go the other way, there is an > existing > asp application and it does a lot of heavy lifting dealing with active > directory and exchange. I want to just pass the variables it needs for > its > processing to it but from a .cfm page. I don't really know if its > possible > but I'm hoping so because rebuilding the whole mother in cf isn't in the > cards right now. > > -Shane > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hayes, Joseph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 4:04 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Question on Accessing Session Objects... > > I have a client that wants me to rewrite a portion of an application... > the > problem is that the main application is ASP and they want me to start a > very > slow conversion to Cold Fusion... well, I now have to deal with getting > certain information from the ASP session. Does anyone out there know > how to > grab the ASP session from within a Cold Fusion page? > > Thanks! > > Joe > > > Shane Johnson www.strangetactics.com Custom ColdFusion Programming & General Website Development Allaire Certified Coldfusion Developer BrainBench Certified Coldfusion Developer ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrFMa.bV0Kx9 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
