Consuming a web service

[spacehog]

I am not sure how to get to a web service. The web service is written in Perl and from a browser I pass it a string, and the service passes back my results:

I enter to the browser:
http://server/chkuser.pl?ID=12345

and either a 0 or a longer string is returned.

How do I call this web service from a CF page?

How do I reference what is returned?

[BKBK]

<cfset wsObject=createobject("webservice", "url_of_web_service_wsdl")>
<cfset x = wsObject.wsMethodCall(arguments_if_any).

[spacehog]

So I have to know the URL of the WSDL and the method?

[Dan_Bracuk]

quote:

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Originally posted by: spacehog
So I have to know the URL of the WSDL and the method?

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yes

[spacehog]

So then the webservice as we currently have it is not useable?

Is there any way then to pass a URL like:

http://servername/filename.pl?ID=12345

and be able to use the string that is passed back?

[Newsgroup_User · Accepted solution]

spacehog wrote:
> So then the webservice as we currently have it is not useable?
>
> Is there any way then to pass a URL like:
>
> http://servername/filename.pl?ID=12345
>
> and be able to use the string that is passed back?
>

Well that does not seem to be a web service. If you just want to
request an HTTP url, the <cfhttp...> tag is pretty useful for this.

<cfhttp url=" http://servername/filename.pl?id=12345">

OR

<cfhttp url=" http://servername/filename.pl">
<cfhttpparam name="id" value="12345" type="url">
</cfhttp>

and then

<cfoutput>#len(cfhttp.filecontent)#</cfoutput>
OR
<cfoutput>#httpCodeFormat(cfhttp.filecontent)#</cfoutput>