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09.18.07
Using Sitemaps And Verity
 by
Raymond Camden
Not many people know that ColdFusion ships with a HTTP spider that integrates with Verity. Unfortunately, this spider will only work with localhost as a server.
This means if you want to spider multiple sites, you can't. Well, not without playing with your host headers. (More information on the Verity Spider and ColdFusion may be found here.)
What I worked on today was a way to work around this limitation. It turns out - if you have a sitemap, you already have a "spider" of your site. BlogCFC supports sitemaps out of the box, and I've blogged in the past a simple UDF to generate sitemaps. Let's look at how we can convert a sitemap into Verity data.
To begin with - let's take a look at some very simple sitemap data.
This sample is missing many of the features that you can include with a sitemap, but it gives you an idea of the structure. As you could guess - a sitemap contains a collection of URLs. So let's look at how we can parse this XML. (Note - I'll be using ColdFusion 8 code throughout this demonstration, but you can easily downgrade this to CF7, 6, or even 5.)
I'm going to be using threading, so I create a Request variable to store my information.
Continue reading this article.
About the Author:
Raymond Camden, ray@camdenfamily.com
http://ray.camdenfamily.com
Raymond Camden is Vice President of Technology for roundpeg, Inc. A long
time ColdFusion user, Raymond has worked on numerous ColdFusion books
and is the creator of many of the most popular ColdFusion community web
sites. He is an Adobe Community Expert, user group manager, and the
proud father of three little bundles of joy.
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