CFHttp Connection Failure on IIS compressed content
I was having trouble calling CFHTTP against one of my CF Servers with a cfhttp connection failure. It has been causing my scheduled tasks to fail in a peculiar way too. Whenever you manually click to execute a scheduled task it would report a failure but the task still runs. For my cfhttp call, I kept getting connection failure status code unavailable.
A quick chat with Patrick at Webapper and a pointed question "is this Windows Server 2003" got me excited but he dashed away to take a call. I googled around and came across Mark Kruger's post about troubleshooting CFHTTP. As soon as I saw the word compression I sat upright in my seat. He provides two cfhttpparam lines to use to tell IIS not to compress the output and sure enough my problem went away. Nice post Mark.