flooker wrote:
> If i am understanding you correct You are suggesting
Flow some thing like . in
> IM clinet issue Command : that will invoke CFC which
will send and e-mail to
> UPS along with all tracking number : my POP3 will
receive reply mail , and then
> i can use that to display results in IM Clent. (Is not
Time here an issue.) i
as i asked before, "what's the email lag?" i guess versus
"how many times does
the cfhttp page scrapping fail?" or "how much time can you
devote to monitoring
their return page & reacting to changes?" i guess the
answer is test the email
lag & see how easy it is to parse & more importantly
how reliable the data is.
> mean user sending command and then at the back end CFC
is waiting for the mail
> to arrive to process it evetually ? please correct the
flow if i am missing
> some thing .
a gateway listener is waiting on the backend, it would IM the
user. grab the
basic POP3 gateway code from chapter 31's source code here:
http://www.forta.com/books/0321292693/