CFLib.org – Common Function Library Project

Description:
UDF equivelant of <CFHTTP>, pass it a URL and it'll return the stream. Does not support passing parameters or fields. Requires a complete URL with the protocol (the http://).

Return Values:
Returns a string.

Example:

<cfset page = HTTPGet("http://www.macromedia.com")>
<cfset page = HTMLEditFormat(page)>
Here is a portion of the HTML:
<p>
<cfloop index="x" from=1 to=5>
    <cfset line = listGetAt(page,x,chr(10))>
    <cfoutput>#line#<br></cfoutput>
</cfloop>

Parameters:

Full UDF Source:

/**
 * UDF equivelant of <CFHTTP>
 * 
 * @param u      The URL to fetch. (Required)
 * @return Returns a string. 
 * @author Ben Forta (ben@forta.com) 
 * @version 1, November 11, 2002 
 */
function HTTPGet(u) {
   // Variables
   var urlclass="";
   var page="";
   var stream="";
   var c="";
   var output="";
   
   // Init class
   urlclass=CreateObject("java", "java.net.URL");

   // Get page
   page=urlclass.init(u);

   // Get stream
   stream=page.getContent();
    
   // Display it
   for (c=stream.read(); c GT 0; c=stream.read())
   {
      output=output&chr(c);
   }

   // don't forget this part
   stream.close();
   
   return output;
}