Using cfhttp, copied file is appended and original is overwritten

Report · Mar 09, 2011

I'm not sure if its the cfhttp configuration or if this is a problem with the webdav server configuration.

Here's my CF code:

It looks like a 'return code' that overwrites the original file:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>201 Created</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Created</h1>
<p>Resource /[removed]/Upload_1103080403.txt has been created.</p>
<hr />
<address>Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.15 OpenSSL/0.9.7d DAV/2 Server at [removed] Port 8[removed]0</address>
</body></html>

The copied file is made correctly, but some how 4 lines are added, and the 3rd one has this string each time:

-------------------------------7d0d117230764--

Any thoughts? Is it cfhttp or Webdav?

TIA,

CB

Report · Apr 11, 2011

The end result was bad coding. The proper format:

        <cfhttp  method="put" url="https://#Application.psupload.Webdavserver##Application.psupload.Filetxt#" username="*" password="**************" throwonerror="yes">
            <cfhttpparam type="file" name="#Application.psupload.Filetxt#" file="#Application.psupload.Pathtxt##Application.psupload.Filetxt#" mimetype="text/plain">
        </cfhttp>

The original code was wrong b/c:

path="#Application.psupload.Pathtxt#" - should be the return message path, ie log of transaction. By setting it equeal to the file to be copied, it gets overwritten.

I did run into an additional issue creating the export file with an extra carriage return and line being added to the end of the file - this was a problem with cfloop and was resolved by 2 cfloop statements to the file, first writing queryrecords-1 and second just writing the last record in query without a new line

Sample Code:

<cftry>
                <cfloop query="Pending" startrow="1" endrow="#(Pending.recordcount)-1#>
                    <cffile action="append"
                    file="#Application.psupload.Pathtxt##Application.psupload.Filetxt#"
                    output="#TRIM(UniqueAppID)#--- cut for clarity"                 
                    addnewline="yes">
                </cfloop>
                <cfset Application.psupload.msg="#Application.psupload.msg# multi Local txt File populated sucessfully<br>">
                    <cftry>
                        <cfloop query="Pending" startrow="#pending.recordcount#" endrow="#pending.recordcount#">
                            <cffile action="append"
                                 file="#Application.psupload.Pathtxt##Application.psupload.Filetxt#"
                                 output="#TRIM(UniqueAppID)#-- cut for clarity"                 
                                 addnewline="no">
                            </cfloop>
                        <cfset Application.psupload.msg="#Application.psupload.msg# multi Local txt File completed sucessfully<br>">
                            <cfcatch>
                                <cfset Application.psupload.msg="#Application.psupload.msg# multi Local txt File Last record Failed<BR>">
                            </cfcatch>
                    </cftry>
                            
                <cfcatch>
                    <cfset Application.psupload.msg="#Application.psupload.msg# multi Local txt File population Failed<BR>">
                </cfcatch>
            </cftry>

Doing this mean I also need to control for when Pending has only 1 record, which other code handles.