Getting a file from another website

Report · May 07, 2009

Hello,

I am trying to get a image from another website. This is not illegal practice that I am trying to conduct. I develop real estate websites and I am just trying to get a list of home images from our provider. I am trying to use cffile (copy) to copy the image from their site to my site.

I just keep getting a bunch of errors. Does anyone know how to do this. I could just go and download them one at a time, but I would rather just loop through an array and let the server grab them.

Thanks

Basically I just want to read an image on another site and copy that image to my webserver. Anyone know how to do this. Thanks again!

Report · May 07, 2009

<cffile...> is for file system access and to work properly you must provide a proper file system path. I.E. "c:\\aDirectory\aFile" OR "\\aServer\aDirectory\aFile" For the latter to work the ColdFusion service|daemon will need to be properly configured to have file system access to the remote server.

To use a HTTP URL you should use the tag designed for that protocol, aka <cfhttp...>

See the documentation on how to use the <cfhttp...> protocol to retreive binary objects such as images.

Report · May 07, 2009

Hi,

It would seem that you might want to look at cfhttp for this action.

<html>

<head>

<title>Testing CFHTTP</title>

</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>

ColdFusion will save a copy of the image on your server, where noted in the file attribute.

There might be better ways of doing this but I did test this with an image on one of my sites and it worked.

edit: pressed submit as Ian's response came through. sorry for the dupe.

Report · May 08, 2009

<cfhttp

method="get" url="http://www.digitalphotoartistry.com/rose1.jpg" file="RoseByAnotherName.jpg" path="C:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\images" />

Report · May 08, 2009

Instead of copying the images to your server, you could always use the img tag to display the originals.

Report · May 08, 2009

Instead of copying the images to your server, you could always use the img tag to display the originals.

<img src="http://www.somebodyElse.com/image.jpg"> is generally considered sneaky, and bad etiquette.