That's right, CF gave me an Allaire error today! It's been a while since I've seen one of these. Brings back memories of my good ole' CF 4.0 days.

I got this while I was working on some code that makes a cfhttp call to a remote server. It's nothing fancy at all, just a simple cfhttp post method that passes 1 form field as a param. The server that I was posting to belongs to another company and I have no control over it. Apparently, they were having some problems today, because whenever I would try to make the http call, it would run for about a minute without connecting, then throw the following error:

That's all. Nothing fancy. Just your regular COM.Allaire.ColdFusion.HTTPFailure.

I can't help but wonder, just how deeply buried in the bowels of CF does this process have to be to still be labeled as Allaire? Allaire has been gone for, what...5 or 6 years now? That's a lifetime in Internet years!

Of course, I guess at one point or another we've all come across some "old code" that was working, and you were afraid to touch it because it may break.