Re: tcpconnect feature request ..
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texte = Well, if ColdFusion does this... ;) I think that would be a fairly easy feature to add. However, I always hesitate to add a new feature to the engine, when a few lines of WebDNA code could do the same thing. -----Original Message----- From: Alain Russell [mailto:alain.russell@blackpepper.co.nz] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:21 PM To: WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com Subject: Re: tcpconnect feature request .. I coded around it but it was messy .. Coldfusion has this now with cfhttp redirect=T so I guess it would not be to hard to add to TcpConnect. . I've just been working on some paypal stuff where this would have been handy and figured that as a whole it would be handy to have .. Scott .. any comments ? Alain On Friday, 22 August 2003, at 4:36 PM, Kenneth Grome wrote: > This is interesting ... and I'll bet that it's not possible to add > this feature because of the low level capabilities (and limitations) > of the tcpconnect context. > > I think a redirect sends a response back to the browser that tells the > browser to close the connection then immediately open a new connection > on a different page (the redirect page). If this is how it works, > then the connection will close after the browser receives the > 'redirect' response from the server ... and the rest of the webdna > code in your template will be interpreted and then sent to the > browser. > > This means SMSI would have to come up with a feature that dynamically > creates and inserts an *invisible* tcpconnect context immediately > following the visible tcpconnect you have coded into your template. > But it could only do this when the response from your tcpconnect > context is a redirect instead of a 'normal' response. > > It's probably not impossible, but ... ? > > > >> Is there anyway we could get TCPCONNECT to have an optional >> >> &redirect=T so it would follow 302/303 redirects ? >> >> Just spent a couple of hours trouble shooting a Paypal IPN problem >> and it turns out if the tcpconnect context followed a redirect no >> error would have been found .. >> >> Thanks >> Alain > > -- > > Sincerely, > Kenneth Grome > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Outsource your WebDNA programming for $18 an hour or less! > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list
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Well, if ColdFusion does this... ;) I think that would be a fairly easy feature to add. However, I always hesitate to add a new feature to the engine, when a few lines of WebDNA code could do the same thing. -----Original Message----- From: Alain Russell [mailto:alain.russell@blackpepper.co.nz] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:21 PM To: WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com Subject: Re: tcpconnect feature request .. I coded around it but it was messy .. Coldfusion has this now with cfhttp redirect=T so I guess it would not be to hard to add to TcpConnect. . I've just been working on some paypal stuff where this would have been handy and figured that as a whole it would be handy to have .. Scott .. any comments ? Alain On Friday, 22 August 2003, at 4:36 PM, Kenneth Grome wrote: > This is interesting ... and I'll bet that it's not possible to add > this feature because of the low level capabilities (and limitations) > of the tcpconnect context. > > I think a redirect sends a response back to the browser that tells the > browser to close the connection then immediately open a new connection > on a different page (the redirect page). If this is how it works, > then the connection will close after the browser receives the > 'redirect' response from the server ... and the rest of the webdna > code in your template will be interpreted and then sent to the > browser. > > This means SMSI would have to come up with a feature that dynamically > creates and inserts an *invisible* tcpconnect context immediately > following the visible tcpconnect you have coded into your template. > But it could only do this when the response from your tcpconnect > context is a redirect instead of a 'normal' response. > > It's probably not impossible, but ... ? > > > >> Is there anyway we could get TCPCONNECT to have an optional >> >> &redirect=T so it would follow 302/303 redirects ? >> >> Just spent a couple of hours trouble shooting a Paypal IPN problem >> and it turns out if the tcpconnect context followed a redirect no >> error would have been found .. >> >> Thanks >> Alain > > -- > > Sincerely, > Kenneth Grome > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Outsource your WebDNA programming for $18 an hour or less! > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > > -- Alain Russell Blackpepper Interactive Ltd p. 09 520 6280 | m. 021 446 169 http://www.blackpepper.co.nz ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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