Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / November 2006

See the attached code to get started.

<!--- The client is required to POST XML to this page.
    Fetch it, process it, return an xml response.
--->
<CFSCRIPT>
    /*--- We are expecting an XML post.   This means that the entire request
body had
        better be valid XML.
    */
    zClientRequestDetails   = GetHttpRequestData ();
    sXML_PostString         = zClientRequestDetails.Content;
    zXML_PostDoc            = XmlParse (sXML_PostString);
</CFSCRIPT>

<!--- Now process the XML depending on your app. --->

<!--- Now output a simple reply XML. --->
<cfcontent  reset="Yes">

<CFOUTPUT><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <MyAPI>
        <statusCode>0</statusCode>
    </MyAPI>
</CFOUTPUT>

<!--- Make sure no "request end" footers corrupt our XML. --->
<CFABORT>