Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / February 2008

You can post it as a string, using cfhttp and cfhttpparam, with cfhttpparam's
type attribute set to formfield or xml.

<!--- sender.cfm --->
<!--- Save xml as string. Avoid space before processing directive --->
<cfsavecontent variable="xmlString"><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Root>
<Action>AddData</Action>
<ID>1234</ID>
<Name>John</Name>
<Phone>4453433334</Phone>
</Root>
</cfsavecontent>

<!--- post xml string as form field or as text/xml --->
<cfhttp method="post" url="http://127.0.0.1:8500/website/actionPage.cfm">
    <cfhttpparam name="xmlString" type="FormField" value="#xmlString#">  
    <cfhttpparam name="xmlString" type="XML" value="#xmlString#">
</cfhttp>

<!--- actionPage.cfm --->
<cfif isdefined("form.xmlString")><!--- form field --->
<cfset requestedXMLString = form.xmlString>
<cfelse><!--- xml --->
<cfset requestedData = GetHttpRequestData()>
<cfset requestedXMLString = requestedData.content>
</cfif>

do u need <cfoutput> around <cfsavecontent>
</cfsavecontent>?

Do u need <cfoutput> around <cfhttp> </cfhttp>?.

No.