Interacting with Remote Servers

Adobe ColdFusion wraps the complexity of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) communications in a simplified tag syntax that lets you extend your site offerings across the web.

• About interacting with remote servers
• Using cfhttp to interact with the web
• Creating a query object from a text file
• Using the cfhttp Post method
• Performing file operations with cfftp

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