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December 2, 2009
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trying to send form information via <cfhttp>

  • December 2, 2009
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Hey guys, I have a ColdFusion question.

I have a simple form where a customer infputs their name and email address. The action takes the customer to a secondary page where I use <cfmail> emails them a coupon code and <cfhttp> sends all the coupon variables to a third party who operates our web store. Currently, the <cfmail> works perfectly; however, the <cfhttp> does not do its job.

The code is below.  Anyone see what I'm doing wrong?

<CFPARAM name= form.name  default="">
<CFPARAM name= form.email  default="no email addy <webmaster@company.com>">

<cfset randomNumber=RandRange(10000, 99999)>
<cfset coupon="VIDEOMAKER">
<cfset resale="10">
<cfset resaleType="percent">
<cfset numDays="3">
<cfset qtyLimit="10">
<cfset description="10% Off for Videomaker Readers">
<cfset username="gtech">
<cfset password="cdsa3455">

<cfset couponName="#randomNumber##coupon##resale#OFF">

<cfmail to="#form.name# <#Form.email#>" bcc="webmaster@company.com"
from="Coupon Server <coupons@company.com>"
subject="Videomaker Discount Coupon for #form.Name#"
username="support@company.com"
password="6787">

<cfif form.name is not "">#form.Name#,</cfif>

Your personal coupon code to receive #resale#% off all Products is below.

CODE: #randomNumber##coupon##resale#OFF

Just enter this code in the shopping cart and save #resale#% instantly!

Your coupon will expire in #numdays# days.
-------------------------------------------------------
Have a Great Day!
The coupon Server

</cfmail>


<cfhttp
method="Post"
url="https://company.nowdirect.com/exec/gbackcoupon.tsb">

<cfhttpparam

name="discount"
type="url"
value="?couponName=#couponName#&coupon=#coupon#&re sale=#resale#&resaleType=#resaleType#&numDays=#num Days#&qtyLimit=#qtyLimit#&description=#description #&username=#username#&password=#password#"
>

</cfhttp>

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    3 replies

    Participant
    December 2, 2009

    They are expecting

    Inspiring
    December 2, 2009

    Is the receiving site expecting url or form variables?

    Participant
    December 2, 2009

    Sorry, I didn't complete the message.  They are expecting url with the name / value pairs as query string.

    ilssac
    Inspiring
    December 2, 2009

    First questions first.

    Have you taken the steps required to allow ColdFusion to make secure HTTPS requests of another server?

    There is a good chance that you need to import a security certificate into the key store so that ColdFusion and this server and exchange the desired information in the desired encryption.

    Here is the first blog I found on the topic.

    http://mkruger.cfwebtools.com/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=8E44925A-B73D-E3AD-709D4E02FD6D4588

    There are plenty of good tech-notes, walk throughs and how to's on what needs to be done, if this is required.

    Participant
    December 2, 2009

    I'm told that we have taken the proper steps to make secure HTTPS requests.  I was given some advice to rewrite the code as following:

    <cfhttp
    method="Get"
    url="https://company.nowdirect.com/exec/coupon.tsb">

    <cfhttpparam name="couponName" value="#couponName#" type="url" />
    <cfhttpparam name="coupon" value="#coupon#" type="url" />
    <cfhttpparam name="resale" value="#resale#" type="url" />
    <cfhttpparam name="resaleType" value="#resaleType#" type="url" />
    <cfhttpparam name="numDays" value="#numDays#" type="url" />
    <cfhttpparam name="qtyLimit" value="#qtyLimit#" type="url" />
    <cfhttpparam name="description" value="#description#" type="url" />
    <cfhttpparam name="username" value="#username#" type="url" />
    <cfhttpparam name="password" value="#password#" type="url" />

    </cfhttp>