Retrieving HTML Header in ColdFusion

Hi all,
I am a little lost as to what tag I would be using to
accomplish this. This is the situation. I am doing SAML single
sign-on. A page would post the information of the user in the HTML
header to my page in Coldfusion. Now, my question, how do I get
those information in the HTML header? Do I use CFHTTP or some other
tags?
Thanks in advance,
Monte

Not sure what you mean by the "HTTP header". Lots of
information from
the HTTP header is available to the ColdFusion action page.
<cfhttp...> is probably not what you want. That tag is
used to make a
http request to another resource and return it to the current
CF request.
Using the expression "A page would post...", would indicate
to me that
the data is most likely in the Form scope on the action page
to which
the data was posted. But it is also possible that the data is
in the
URL scope if the word "post" was not a literal post operation
but a get
operation. Thirdly it is possible something might be
happening in the
CGI scope.
So try this on the ColdFusion action page and see if it does
not
enlighten you.
<cfdump var="#form#" label="Post Data">
<cfdump var="#url#" label="Get Data">
<cfdump var="#CGI#" label="CGI Data">
This does assume a fairly recent CF so that the dump tag is
available
(post CF 5, IIRC)
TangoRules wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am a little lost as to what tag I would be using to
accomplish this. This
> is the situation. I am doing SAML single sign-on. A page
would post the
> information of the user in the HTML header to my page in
Coldfusion. Now, my
> question, how do I get those information in the HTML
header? Do I use CFHTTP
> or some other tags?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Monte
>

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