Chttp receiving page breaking the variable

[Gnatflea]

I have a program doing a cfhttp get to a url with two variables: a file name and an id. The id is being sent correctly. 1234556. However, once it gets to the receiving page and I do an output of that value to check it, it shows up as 1 2 3 4 5 6.  While I can do a replace on that end for the spaces, the file name generation that includes that id then breaks as well. I'm using Colfusion 5.0..

An example:

<cfset appid = "1234565">

<cfset appfile = "abc_" + #appid#>

<cfhttp url="index.cfm?appfile=#appfile#&appid=#appid#" timeout=5>

A write to file from the index.cfm page to show both variables shows as this:

abc_1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6

It also shows a special character.. not sure if it's a line break or not.. it's a little square next to the appid.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[Dan_Bracuk]

I'm surprised it actually runs given that you are not using the correct concatonation operator.

[Gnatflea]

Ahhh.. so it seems. That was a mistype on my part... I had the code at work, and am still getting used to Coldfusion after not working with it for a while.

Here is the actual code:

<cffile action="read" file="/code/iplanet/docs/info.txt" variable="filecontent">
               <cfloop index="index" list="#filecontent#" delimiters="|">
               <cfset appfile = "info" & "_"
          & index & "_"
          & numberformat(year(now()),"0009")
          & numberformat(month(now()),"09")
          & numberformat(day(now()),"09")
          & "_"
          & numberformat(hour(now()),"09")
          & numberformat(minute(now()), "09")
          & numberformat(second(now()) ,"09")
          & "_"
          & randrange(1000,9999)>

          <cfhttp url = "http://fullurl/process.cfm?appfile=#appfile#&appid=#index#" method="get" timeout=5>

Process.cfm page:

I currently do this to fix the spaces in the appid
<cfset client.appid = Replace(url.appid," ","","all")>

The rest is the same.. extra spaces, special character after the last number of the appid

[Dan_Bracuk]

What happens if you use hard coded values instead of variables in the url string?

[Gnatflea]

If I hard code the values being sent, it is sent correctly with no extra spaces. So it works fine that way.. just not with the variables

[Dan_Bracuk]

So the next step is to identify the point at which your variables misbehave.  What happens if you cfdump them after they are created?