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A Reminder About CFHTTP and JSON

If you’re using this to retrieve JSON:

    <cfhttp 
        authtype="basic" 
        username=#UserName# 
        password=#APIkey#
        url="https://api.example.com/v2/getThings?page=1&page_size=10"
    >

And find your response is JSON wrapped in a bare-bones HTML document, rather than just the JSON you were expecting, you might need to add a cfhttpparam accept tag to specifically reference application/json, like so:

    <cfhttp 
        authtype="basic" 
        username=#UserName# 
        password=#APIkey#
        url="https://api.example.com/v2/getThings?page=1&page_size=10"
    >
        <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Accept" value="application/json">
    </cfhttp>