EZ Text API & ColdFusion - coldfusion

Question

Anyone have any experience with the EZ Text API and ColdFusion? I'm trying this call:
<cfhttp url="https://app.eztexting.com/sending/messages?format=JSON"
method="POST" result="objGet" charset="utf-8">
<cfhttpparam type="header" name="Content-Type" value="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
<cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="User" value="xxx" />
<cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="Password" value="xxx"/>
<cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="PhoneNumbers[]" value="9999999999" />
<cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="MessageTypeID" value="1" />
<cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="Message" value="Hello" />
</cfhttp>
... which is returning a status code of 200 and trying to redirect to their home page.
Their tech support can only tell me that I should use curl which is not installed on the server that I need it on. I have used curl successfully in my devel environment, so I'm sure that the url and credentials are good.
Any thoughts are welcome! Thanks.

Answer 1

I'm guessing you're using the REST API. If yes, the reason it's redirecting you to the home page is because the URL is incorrect. Apparently the format parameter is case sensitive. So ?format=JSON should be changed to ?format=json (all lower case).
Making that minor adjustment to your code example:
<cfhttp url="https://app.eztexting.com/sending/messages?format=json"
method="POST" result="objGet" charset="utf-8">
...
</cfhttp>
... returns the expected JSON response for bogus credentials, instead of the html for the home page:
{
"Response": {
"Status": "Failure",
"Code": 401,
"Errors": [
"Authorization Required"
]
}
}
Once you get past this issue, you may want to double check your formfield names. The API lists the parameter name PhoneNumbers, not PhoneNumbers[].