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Spidering and Saving Images with CFHTTP and CFFILE

Posted by: scoopseven 15 years, 1 month ago

Goal: To spider a site (our own site) and save all image files from the pages on that site to a hard disk on another server. Thanks to Ben Nadel for showing me the way on this one.  For some reason the path/file attributes on cfhttp were not allowing me to save a image file to the hard disk on our linux (CentOS) server. I thought I could save the file using cfcontent somehow, which led me to Ben's post. Never thought to just save the binary stream using cffile. Not sure if there was a permissions problem or what, but here's the work-around.
<!--- Grab the image file. ---> <cfhttp method="get" url="http://www.myurl.com/someimage.jpg" useragent="#CGI.http_user_agent#" getasbinary="yes" result="objGet"  /> <!--- Save the image file. ---> <cffile action="write"  output="#objGet.FileContent#"  mode="777"  file="/mypath/myimage.jpg">
This worked like a charm.  Again, not sure if this was cfhttp doesn't support the "mode" attribute or what, but it helped immensely.  Thanks, Ben.

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