CFX_HTTP5 is a state-of-the-art fully customizable high performance C/C++ tag (0% Java; 0% COM; 0% MFC) that can be used instead of CFHTTP in ColdFusion applications on MS Windows platform. Both 32-bit and 64-bit systems are supported.

Features:

• Take complete control over HTTP request and response (like Referer, Content-type, cookies, redirects, and so on).
• Control and report authentication scheme to be used in HTTP request: Basic, NTLM, Digest, and others.
• Fixes most of known CFHTTP-related problems in ColdFusion 4.5, 5.0, and MX.
• Use tag's asynchronous mode to execute many HTTP requests SIMULTANEOUSLY within the SAME ColdFusion page.
• Execute HTTP requests on background, while reading a database, for example.
• Progress monitoring of long-running downloads.
• Selective downloads based on specified content types.
• Tag maintains its own independent of ColdFusion threading and requests queuing.
• Increase the performance of your Web-site by deploying true multithreaded applications.
• Sessions - chained HTTP requests that share state and authetication credentials.
• Trouble-free HTTPS communications.
• Advanced timeout settings - both TCP/IP and HTTP-based.
• Very small executable. No external dependencies, except WinHttp API.
• Built-in GZIP decompression of the content.
• Built-in base64 encoding of binary content.
• Client-side Digital Certificates support.
• Unicode and Code Pages support (CF MX and later).
• Able to support access to any Web-service.
• Two versions of the tag included: 32-bit and 64-bit.

Tag is built on WinHttp 5.1 API - native Windows HTTP layer - and, therefore, supports all security and authentication protocols, regardless of whether ColdFusion supports them or not. Built-in per-request security context switch.

Tested under ColdFusion 3.1, 4.5, 5.0, 6.x, 7.0, 8.x, and 9.0 on hundreds educational, commercial, and governmental Web-sites worldwide.

Unlimited lifetime support. Free upgrades from any version to the most current version.

Increases the speed of HTTP communications up to 64 times. Proven to be the best and fastest HTTP connectivity tool on the market. Times faster than Macromedia's HttpAgent. More flexible and effective than MX 7's Async Gateways. Faster, than anything you can, possibly, program in Java.

Critical portions of the code were written in manually optimized Assembler to provide the maximum performance. CFX_HTTP5 will outperform any other ColdFusion, Java, .NET, or PHP tool.

Note for CFMX 6.0 users. The tag may or may not work under CFMX 6.0. The tag itself is CF version independent. However, due to unexplainable reasons some users have reported problems when using CFX_HTTP5 with CFMX 6.0. It does not mean the tag does not work - we just do not support it on MX 6.0.

Create real mulithreaded and distributed applications in any version of Cold Fusion.

Launch up to 64 independend "threads" than can run on the same or different physical machines. The main thread uses non-preemtive multitasking to control other threads and serves, as a merging point for results of other threads. You can drastically increase the performance of your application by re-distrubuting complex tasks between different machines and executing them in parallel.

Scenario 1

Imagine you need to query three HTTP servers in order to build the resulting page. It takes 1 sec for the first server to respond, 2 sec - for the second, and 3 sec - for the third. If you use standard CFHTTP tag, it will take at least 6 sec (1+2+3) to build the final page. With CFX_HTTP5 you can do it in 3 sec (max(1, 2, 3)). You also can start processing some shorter responses while longer ones still executing.

Scenario 2

If you need to query a HTTP server (takes 3 sec) and execute a query against a database server (takes 5 sec), you will need at least 8 sec to build the response page using standard tools. With CFX_HTTP5 you could launch the HTTP request and execute the database query in parallel. Therefore, you need only 5 sec to get external data. Moreover, you can run HTTP queries on background of a lengthy processing that you may have.

The package includes:

• Tag DLL;
• Documentation;
• Test/demo CF scripts;
• Lifetime warranty.

Download evaluation version here.

Evaluation version is a fully-functional version that limits number of requests you can make (about 200). When the limit is met, the tag will produce an error on every call. To make tag functional again, you will have to re-start ColdFusion service.

Note that the licensing is per physical machine. Volume discounts and site licenses are available. If you legally own CFX_HTTP5 and would like to get the latest version of the product, just e-mail us.

If you need help in building high-performance communications, consulting services available.

How to buy:

• Option 1.

  Mail to us a check written on a US bank. Email us for mailing address.

• Option 2.

  Pay via PayPal to adiabata@cs.com account. Production package will be emailed to you upon funds clearance.

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