User Guide

cfhttp 213
• Modified response body content types considered to be text.
• Changed behavior for multiple headers: multiple headers of the same type are returned in an
array.
• Added support for HTTPS proxy tunneling.
• Fixed bugs in code and documentation.
ColdFusion MX:
• Added the charset and firstrowasheaders attributes.
• Changed Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) support: ColdFusion uses the Sun JSSE library, which
supports 128-bit encryption, to support SSL.
Attributes
The following attributes control the HTTP transaction and can be used for all HTTP methods:
Attribute Req/Opt Default Description
url Req Uses the
http
protocol
Address of the resource on the server which will handle the
request. The URL must include the hostname or IP
address.
If you do not specify the transaction protocol (http:// or
https://), ColdFusion defaults to http.
If you specify a port number in this attribute, it overrides
any
port attribute value.
The
cfhttpparam tag URL attribute appends query string
attribute-value pairs to the URL.
port Opt 80 for http
443 for
https
Port number on the server to which to send the request. A
port value in the url attribute overrides this value.