cfhttp and setting the content-type for a request

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Hi,I am trying to set the content-type for a cfhttp request like this (on coldfusion 9): // coding on test2.cfm:// Output on test2.cfmcontent [empty string] headersstructAccept-Encoding deflate, gzip, x-gzip, compress, x-compress Connection TE Host 10.0.0.1:80 Proxy-Connection close TE trailers, deflate, gzip, compress User-Agent ColdFusion X-REWRITE-URL http://10.0.0.1:80/test2.cfm method GET protocol HTTP/1.1 As you can see no content-type is send through. I also tried the sniffer.exe:GET http://10.0.0.1:80/test2.cfm HTTP/1.1Host: 127.0.0.1Proxy-Connection: closeConnection: TETE: trailers, deflate, gzip, compressUser-Agent: ColdFusionAccept-Encoding: deflate, gzip, x-gzip, compress, x-compressHere you can also see that no content-type was passed through. The sniffer should report backGET http://10.0.0.1:80/test2.cfm HTTP/1.1Host: 127.0.0.1Proxy-Connection: closeConnection: TETE: trailers, deflate, gzip, compressUser-Agent: ColdFusionAccept-Encoding: deflate, gzip, x-gzip, compress, x-compressContent-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8But is does not, what do i need todo to set the content-type in a cfhttp request.Kind regards,Nebu

gabrieleb5037809 · Accepted Answer

Java is the way
I suppose that "under the hood" CFHTTP is cutting the "Content-Type" header for verbs other than PUT/POST.
This would be a wrong assumption (GET requests are not prohibited to have a "Content-Type" header even if they have -obviously- no body).
See this StackOverflow discussion on the subject.

Now the Java solution: the original code

</cfhttp>

becomes (in CFScript)

req = Createobject("java", "org.apache.http.client.fluent.Request");

res = req.get("http://10.0.0.1/test2.cfm ") .setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8")

.execute()

.returnContent();

</cfscript>

That's all, thank you Java !

Nebu23 · Answer

He unmarked it as the answer, since it turned out it didn't work. Which is reasonable.

Correct i changed it to helpfull cause it could have worked but in my case it didn't. I am currenty writing a component based on java to bypass this issue in cfhttp. I will post this component here so anyone else encoutering this issue can also use it. I am aware of the cfx_http5 tag but i do not like to use anything that is not open source or part of coldfusion itself cause then i have to depent on others to solve issues.

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