Re: Latency Issues when pulling data from other websites

2010-10-30 Thread David McGraw
If you are using cfhttp to retrieve the image, add a timeout value to it and code for the case in which id doesn't come back in time. Or you can utilize ajax to do your retrievable so the entire page is presented, and then a secondary process retrieves the files post page load. Regards, David

RE: Latency Issues when pulling data from other websites

2010-10-30 Thread Russ Michaels
Ideally do not use CF to get the image. Either link to it directly using the img tag or use ajax then it all happens client side and will not stop your page loading. Russ -Original Message- From: Richard Steele [mailto:r...@photoeye.com] Sent: 30 October 2010 20:20 To: cf-talk Subject:

Re: Latency Issues when pulling data from other websites

2010-10-30 Thread David McGraw
Russ, I would assume he's using Amazon services for files that need more than just loading images on a web page, but for something like a image gallery, or something else that requires loading on the server side, which is why his question is about requesting the file using CF. On Sat, Oct 30,

RE: Latency Issues when pulling data from other websites

2010-10-30 Thread Russ Michaels
-Original Message- From: David McGraw [mailto:david.mcg...@gmail.com] Sent: 30 October 2010 20:58 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Latency Issues when pulling data from other websites Russ, I would assume he's using Amazon services for files that need more than just loading images on a web page