GETHTTPREQUESTDATA |
Description Makes HTTP request headers and body available to CFML pages. Useful for capturing SOAP request data, which can be delivered in an HTTP header.
Returns A ColdFusion structure.
Category System functions
Function syntax
    GetHttpRequestData()
Returns The function returns a structure containing the following entries:
Usage To determine whether data is binary, use IsBinary(x.content). To convert data to a string value, if it can be displayed as a string, use ToString(x.content).
Example The following example shows how this function can return HTTP header information.
    <cfset x = GetHttpRequestData()>
    <cfoutput>
    <table cellpadding = "2" cellspacing = "2">
      <tr>
        <td><b>HTTP Request item</b></td>
        <td><b>Value</b></td> </tr>
    <cfloop collection = #x.headers# item = "http_item">
        <tr>
          <td>#http_item#</td>
          <td>#StructFind(x.headers, http_item)#</td>   </tr>
    </cfloop>
    <tr>
       <td>request_method</td>
       <td>#x.method#</td></tr>
    <tr>
       <td>server_protocol</td>
       <td>#x.protocol#</td></tr>
    </table>
    <b>http_content --- #x.content#</b>
    </cfoutput>

CONTENT |

Raw content from form submitted by client, in string or binary format. For content to be considered string data, the FORM request header "CONTENT_TYPE" must start with "text/" or be special case "application/x-www-form-urlencoded". Other types are stored as a binary object.

HEADERS |

Structure that contains HTTP request headers as value pairs. Includes custom headers, such as SOAP requests.

METHOD |

String that contains the CGI variable Request_Method.

PROTOCOL |

String that contains the Server_Protocol CGI variable.