CFHTTP help!

Question

I'm trying to grab some useful links from the following website (I was told that we already got permission for it):

I'm using CFHTTP and I did it on my machine (localhost), I got the result I wanted.

Then I moved to production server, once I access our website the website won't fire up for around 4 to 5 minutes with error: Connection failure

I'm not sure what this mean. It works just fine from my localhost but not on our production server?

I search for answer in google, one said it may be the firewall and the way to test is to ping and see:

I ping the IP 72.29.101.80 and got respond, so this mean there is no firewall on my prod. server? in that case what could be the problem.

Can anyone help?

I'm using Coldfusion 8 and the web server is in Unix ( for production)

I'm developing from my local in windows env.

Here is my simple code:

<cfhttp

method="post" url=http://www.supportingadvancement.com/ port="8500" throwonerror="Yes"></cfhttp>

<cfset

sStartString = cfhttp.filecontent>

#htmlCodeFormat(trim(cfhttp.filecontent))#

</cfoutput>

mack_ · Answer

I would bet my money on a firewall that drops outgoing packets (maybe

only new connection to port 80 maybe all new tcp/udp connections).

From your server try "telnet www.supportingadvancement.com 80" (from

the command prompt) and see what's the answer (if the console hangs at

"Connecting to ....." then it's a firewall issue).

Mack

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